Working is Just Like A Game
Before I start sharing my thoughts let me warn you that I am not going to tell you to play during work time. I will just be comparing how similar it is when you are playing a game and working.
Don’t you hate it when you are stuck in the middle of a big project and do not really have a clue how to make it work? It happens to me many times and I really hate it when it happens, but I learned to deal with it by taking it as if I am playing a game!
Let me explain, I know it sounds silly but I am more than serious here. I have noticed that many times when some people are stuck when they are working on something they will just give up and move to something else, sure there are some work that we do that are really annoying but we have not choice. We have to complete that task. So how can you take it as a game? Take any game that you have just started playing, at times you do not know what to do because it is not explained anywhere, you have to find out by yourself. No matter how much time you are wasting, you need to find the solution to the game so you can move to the next level. Right?
I have that game on my phone, it is called Qaudradrop a bit like tetris but it has musical notes falling instead. When I started playing that game I was losing very fast since I did not know how to move the falling parts. It is a very addictive game and I find myself spending a lot of time with it (every time I want to beat the highest record that I have reached). Yesterday I have reached 100k points and I have been saying to myself once I reached that point I will stop playing it which I did not… now I want to beat that new record.
So, why not try to apply that same strategy to the work you are doing. In fact I will be applying it to affiliate marketing. I am new and I know I can be discouraged very easily, this can keep me motivated. Every time I will feel like I should give up, I will say to myself that I have not reached my goal yet (that is to make my first sale). Of course, when I will reach that goal I will set new goals.
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I Still Have a Lot to Learn About Bum Marketing
If you have read my last post “Obsessed with writing perfect posts” you know already that I am trying to earn with affiliate marketing. Surely it is not easy and I am applying those techniques that I have read here and there. In fact I am trying the bum marketing method, a method that many affiliates are using these days as it is free.
I have already heard about the bum marketing technique in the past, also read how some have tried it but it did not really work out for them. I think if it did not work then it means they have not been trying hard enough. I am finding it hard to start myself, definitely PPC is a better option but I do not really want to spend money on this. It is very hard to stay motivated too when there is no one to tell you exactly what to do, I had to set up some kind of plan for myself to know what I will work on daily. A bit like I do for job, it is probably the fact of working for others that makes it difficult when I have to do things for myself, I will have to work on changing that mindset.
I have use the title “I Still Have a Lot to Learn About Bum Marketing” as I will have to change the way I look at things. I already mentioned that I read about bum marketing method before, in my mind it was just writing articles and submit it like crazy and you are done. It fact it is not exactly that, you surely need to write articles but you need to know how to do it right and I am sure this is the main reason many have failed at it. I am definitely not good at it yet to explain what is wrong or right since I actually have only 2 articles live at ezinearticles.com. Both articles have got around 50 views and I have 8 clicks to the urls I have added in the articles.
This is only the beginning but I will not give up any time soon maybe if things are not working out in 3 to 6 months then I will just move to other techniques that I am already trying along but article marketing is my priority right now. I am sure I will learn a lot during this long journey and will update this blog more regularly with what I am learning. It is actually a good thing that I started affiliate marketing, I am getting more things to write about and my post posting regularly is important will actually make sense (to me at least).
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