How To Work From Anywhere

If you recall from my last post called “Working On The Go“, I talked about taking this blog in the direction it was intended which was focusing on the word working. That doesn’t mean that I am going to change the focus a whole lot as far as building a residula income but I am going to present the information I give in a slightly different way. Picking up where we left off, I was trying to retarget this blog and I wrote about moving up my sites domain name to number one in the search results as an experiment. I think in the last post, I updated it the last time and it was number seven. It’s since moved up to number six. It was originally at number twenty-six. Not to bad for getting a few backlinks. Thanks to a couple of people that helped send some links over. In particular, I wanted to thank Aaron and I’ll be repaying the favor here shortly and will email you in a bit.

The techniques we are going to talk about here are ideal for someone who wants to find a job that they can work at home with. The only problem with trying to make money with adsense is that it does take a while to get things off the ground. In that way, it’s a little different than a real job. It’s more like a sales job. When you work in sales, you visit prospective customers and the thing is that you never know who is going to buy that particular day. You might set up 6 appointments. A couple are going to cancel, maybe one out of the six might buy today. Maybe six on another. The only thing you can control is the number of appointments you set.

It’s the same way building content for your site. You might build a 100 pages and nothing might happen for awhile. Then, on your 101st page, you hit a keyword that makes you money. Maybe you are lucky and you make money right out of the gate. But I think I speak for most of us when it takes awhile to see the results. Now you can streamline your efforts by joining the Keyword Academy to learn how to target keywords more efficiently and the other solid thing you can do and that you can control is the number of pages you put out there.

A lot of us probably have seen people put together some massive efforts to succeed quickly and then they do. What we rarely see is someone who builds results slowly. I think we can almost learn more from someone who build out their efforts a little more deliberately because its the way most of us do it. Ultimately, we want to work from home eventually, but we have to start with part time work. Our goal of course is to move into it full time.

The ideal way would be if we put in massive action and could get everything rolling in a just a few days then quit our real job. But for most of us, massive action seems pretty tough. In my own case, I go through ups and downs as far as time available. Sometimes I can do a lot, other days not so much. What I think most of us want is to know what the minimum amount of action is that we have to take to succeed and you just can’t look at it that way.

The other issue with work at home jobs is that there’s no one to look over our shoulder and say “HEY! Where’s the massive action you promised?” We have to find the drive within you to create that momentum. Most of us are out of shape for any kind of work from home jobs because we can’t figure out how to develop the drive or the work ethic to get things done. It’s easier to do nothing.

So here’s my recipe if you are interested in how to develop it. It works for me, it might not work in your case.

1. Focus on one thing at a time. If you are going to build niche sites, then put all of your energy into that. If you are going to create a make money online site, then focus all of your time and effort to it and stick to one strategy to succeed. Don’t work one strategy one day and another one the next day. See things through.
2. Don’t give up to soon. Work on your goal as long as it takes. I know when I first started in sales, I worked for free for a long time. Now, I make a good living at it. It’s the same with the online stuff. You just have to wait it out and continue working on it.
3. Build up your massive action muscles. At first, you might find a challenge online like 100 hubs in 30 days. You get all excited and decide that TOMORROW, you are going to start in and do the same thing. When tomorrow comes though, the same enthusiasm isn’t there and it seems like work now and you don’t do it. Then you get all down on yourself.
4. What I always do, is start by taking small steps. I compare it to a weightlifter. You might know someone who can bench press 350 pounds. But, I could never do that. But I can lift 10. If that’s all I can do for that day, that’s what I start with. Eventually one day, I discover I can lift fifteen but not quite as many times. But I do what I can. Before you know it, I am lifting 20 and 30. You get the idea.
5. Start with the minimum action you know you will complete each and every day. That’s your 10 pounds. Then slowly increase it.

That’s really what we are doing here. I’m starting with what I think would probably be a fairly easy keyword to rank and I’m going to start working on more. My goal today was to get a double index for working on the go to see if I can move up a little further and will post an update later.

UPDATE: I checked pretty soon after I posted (it was four minutes) and I did get my double index. But I didn’t improve my ranking any higher than six.

Working On The Go with a double indexed listing at #6 and #7.

UPDATE #2: So, I checked again and see that I am up to #3 and #4 on December 14.

Here's where I've moved up to #3 for the term working on the go.

UPDATE #3: I checked on the 15th and I was number one.

The final working on the go ranking at #1.

Tagged as: part time work, work at home, work at home jobs, work from home, work from home jobs, Working, working on the go

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