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As a nice counterpoint to my previous post on “small digestible steps” I’d like to look at some fast track methods of ramping up in internet marketing. The first thing you need to do is create an environment that will make it easy to move forward.

Step one: Cancel your cable TV

You heard me right. Cancel it. Cold turkey. Cut the umbilical cord and free yourself from your self imposed shackles.

I can hear you now. Grumbling about missing your favorite shows. How will you keep up with current events? Guess what. You won’t miss it a bit. It’s hard to believe but 100% true. One of the best things we’ve done as a family is to cancel the cable. Sure, we still watch movies and we get a couple of channels but we rarely watch at all. What do we do instead? Spend a hell of a lot of time on the internet. Read. Knit. Go for bike rides. Do stuff. If you have kids you won’t believe the positive change this will have on their lives.

Just humor me for a moment. Think for just a minute about how much of your life you spend watching television.

According to a quick internet search,  Americans watch an average of almost 4 hours of TV a day! That’s 28 hours a week, 120 hours a month. 7.5 full 16 hour days a month. A quarter of your life. Holy crap - it’s even worse than I thought!

Where do you fit into this average? If you only watch 2 hrs of TV a day it’s still 60 hours a month. Think about how much you could accomplish in 60 hours a month.

What would you be giving up?

Missing out on the latest hot series. Getting spoon fed your news with a generous helping of advertising. Some great shows on public access networks. You won’t be able to keep up with the latest “what happened on 24 last night” water cooler gossip.

What do you have to gain?

60 hours a month to break out of your holding pattern. In just one month you could be building websites, soaking up useful information, creating ebook products, researching niches, running cheap and effective ad campaigns. In a year or less you could be kissing your J.O.B. goodbye and living anywhere you please. Then you can turn the cable on again (if you still want to).

Food for thought.

mike
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