Finally, this is the longly awaited “How To Overcome Information Overload - Part 2″! After the last post on information overload, many subscribers have requested if I could go into more details as it was rather brief.
So here we go. The KEY to overcoming information overload is…

Focus.

That’s it. Even if you get bombarded with emails after emails from those gurus promoting their latest internet marketing products, you’ve got to keep yourself focused. You’ve got to stay on track on what you’re doing right now, and not get distracted.

Rather than buying every single product that comes down the pipe every week, look at the big picture. Look at what you’re doing right now in internet marketing. Are you doing affiliate marketing? List building? Traffic generation? Copywriting? Blogging? Pick, focus and specialize in one of those methods.

Now that whenever a new internet marketing product comes out, all you have to do is see if it fits within your big picture of what you’re currently doing. It really boils down to looking at your internet marketing business as a whole. If you’re doing list building right now, then purchase only list building products. If an Adsense product comes out, ignore it. Even if it claims that it’s the “latest, revolutionary tactic to generating instant $100,000 paychecks”, ignore it, because it doesn’t fit in with what you’re doing. Don’t get distracted. Focus on what you’re doing.

In terms of overcoming information overload on a day-to-day basis is to write down your purpose for the day on a sticky note and put it on your monitor. That way, whenever you start going off track and reading other things, you’ll remind yourself by looking at the note and get back to what you’re doing. If you feel you’ve gone off track, force yourself to ask this question: “Does this really fit with my purpose for being online right now?”

Stanley Tang

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Andrew Carnegie commissioned Napoleon Hill to interview 504 of the most successful people of that era. Carnegie’s objective was to identify common success factors. That was in 1908 and Andrew Carnegie was supposed to have been the richest man in the world.

Twenty-nine years later, Napoleon Hill published the famous book, Think and Grow Rich. The book outlined thirteen principles that his many years of research had identified as being common to every really successful person on that list.

One of those principles was that no person achieves success alone. Hill called these associations a ‘master mind group’. The idea was that one head was better than two and two was better than three and so on.

Every really successful person had his own master mind group… a group of people that he relied on to give advice, criticize, encourage, motivate and inspire him. Collective intelligence, according to Hill’s theory, is greater than any single intelligence.

Applying this principle is central to gaining success in the internet market place. You must build your own master mind group. If you are involved in internet marketing, you have probably noticed that there are groups of marketers that work together.

The cross-promote one another’s products and services. In short…they are a group…a master mind group. You need a master mind group of your own.

The way to go about gathering together your own master mind group is through the associations that you just naturally make when you are engaged in internet marketing. From these contacts you build your own group of close associates that are knowledgeable and reliable.

It takes time and it takes patience but it is well worth both. Collectively you will all be stronger than as individuals. Two heads really are better than one and more than two is even better.

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