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The most common and powerful advice dished out by every expert on this planet is one word: Action.

At the heart of almost all business and personal development education is the concept that in order to realize a goal you have to do something - sometimes anything will do - to get a result.

It may seem obvious, and intuitively you understand why action works, yet it’s common advice because most people fail to do it.

I regularly refer to taking action in the articles here on Entrepreneurs-Journey.com and also in the blog training materials I produce for my newsletter and mentoring program. I read similar advice on other blogs and in books I read on business and self improvement.

There is one tip you hear more often than any other at the end of podcast interviews or speaking presentations from experts. It goes along the lines of “do something if you want results” - yes, more take action advice.

In many ways if you really want the true “Secret” to success in life, it is taking action.

Why People Fail

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I just completed listening to module 10 of the Rich Schefren Strategic profits business coaching program and there was this one really simple tip I just had to pass on to you.

It’s little ideas like this that make mentoring programs so powerful. The advice may seem obvious after hearing it, yet in most cases if someone didn’t pass on the idea you would waste time trying to figure it out by yourself.

Module 10 is all about hiring people, both outsourcing and full time employees. I’ve never hired a full time employee before, and I’m not sure I ever will, but given Rich’s experience in the past, at one point overlooking a staff of more than 100 people (I think that was for his hypnosis business), he’s clearly done this before.

Job Selection Criteria

When hiring new people you know what general role you want them to fill and what you want them to do. Often the tiny little details, the actual tasks required of that role, can be difficult to come up with. You might have a handful of ideas off the top of your head, but this is an area where it’s better to be comprehensive so you can hire the right person for the job.

Rich suggested whenever you need to hire someone, to save time and generate selection criteria ideas/tasks, go online and search for similar companies to yours that are hiring or have hired for positions like you currently need to fill and leverage their job criteria details.

Rich mentioned that given his business is very similar to the E-Myth organization, reviewing their job notices and selection criteria helped him to come up with tasks he wanted to include on the selection criteria for jobs he had open.

This is another case where you can leverage the competition to help make your life easier and efficient. Most of the answers are already online from people who have done what you need to do - just get out and find examples to follow. Best of all, like in this situation, the information is freely available by searching job sites and employment pages on other company’s sites. Easy!

If you want more ideas like this and you run an Internet business I strongly recommend the Strategic Profits program. Rich is currently offering a seven day trial for $1 to sample what he offers (I think you get at least module 1).

More information is available at:

http://www.strategicprofits.com/coaching/

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I met Paul Easton at the World Internet Summit Melbourne. He’s a New Zealander specializing in link building who asked if I would be able to participate in an interview call recording about blogging for use as a bonus in a product he was planning to release.

Paul’s enjoyed some success selling - wait for it… dog clothes! Yet another unique online niche. Most of his sales come from organic search results and he credits his efforts building links for his success and has put together a product detailing how he does it.

Paul’s has released his product in advance just for the readers of Entrepreneurs-Journey, so if you need more traffic to your website and advice on building links, check out this page -

http://www.digitalawol.com/

About half way down the page you will find the details of my bonus audio along with my smiling face :).

You can also download a copy of Paul’s free link building report.

Note I haven’t had a chance to review Paul’s stuff thoroughly yet because I’m in the throngs of my own Blog Mastermind launch, so I can’t vouch for the quality of his advice. There’s always the money back guarantee if you are not happy with the product.

This is Paul’s first product launch and I think it’s important to support new marketers just getting started who have a unique story to tell and learn from. I’m sure if you have any feedback for him he would appreciate it.

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Here’s another message I sent out to my eager Blog Mastermind students-in-waiting, this time on the subject of consuming too much information and not actually doing anything with it.

If you want to get these messages (and I’ve sent out over 20 already) you need to be on the Blog Mastermind early notification email list.

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There’s something that really frustrates me. You want to know what it is?

It’s you.

Well, not you exactly. What I mean is the majority of people who have ever purchased an educational product online.

I wasn’t going to launch a blog mentoring program for one very good reason - there is so much free information already online about how to make money blogging, how to drive traffic to blogs and just general blogging tips, I thought what’s the point?

Who will join my program when there is so much free content out there already?

Then I realized something.

If there’s so much free information out there already, why aren’t more people enjoying success with their blogs? Why aren’t there more professional bloggers? Why isn’t it NORMAL for people to earn a full time income from blogging?

It comes down to two issues:

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This is an email I sent out to my early notification list for the launch of Blog Mastermind. The mentoring program is coming along smoothly and thanks to the help of a bunch of talented people we should have the program ready for the first group of students by the end of May.

If you are interested in learning more about the mentoring program, what to be first to find out when it launches and would like to receive blogging advice like the article you are about to read then you better get over to BlogMastermind.com and sign-up to the email list.

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I did an interview about blogging and I was asked for my number one recommendation to give new bloggers. I thought back to my early days blogging and the main sources of discouragement I faced.

The most frustrating aspect was watching other bloggers making good money online and making very little from my own blog at the time. There were a particular few moments where I remember thinking I would throw in the towel because I felt I really wasn’t getting anywhere.

I usually felt worst when another blogger talked about their success and I felt I was working just as hard as them and not getting nearly as good results, or just after attempting to make some money from my blog and earning absolutely zero.

What is interesting was when I felt BEST about blogging, and it’s this point I want to really ram home to you today, especially if you are still in your first six months of blogging or about to begin.

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