Damn – You’ve stolen my next blog post (lol).
Seriously, Carlton is absolutely spot-on!

I know we’ve all been guilty (including me) of buying products that may well have been brilliant but have falied to utilize them.

As Carlton hints – this is one of the biggest reasons for failure in IM. There are only so many hours in the day and we all have other commitments on our time. We are often too quick to blame failure on the products we buy but (although there are some real poor ones out there too) part of the blame has to lie with us.

If you do buy a product then you need to give it your all. If it doesn’t fit in with what you’re doing right now then leave it! Or if it’s really irresistable then make sure you schedule time in to make sure you actually use it.

SIDE NOTE:
I’m not doing myself any favours here – But just because I email you saying “Hey – Go check this out it’s amazing” it’s really up to you to decide if it fits in with your business model right now. We as marketers (this includes you) ultimately earn our living through advertising other peoples products and services. It doesn’t matter whether you’re working on Adsense, Affiliate marketing, List building, PPC – It all boils down to advertising and that’s what Internet Marketing is. The important thing (from my point of view) is that I provide value along the way.

In my next post I have something that I hope will really help you. I’m going to tell you all the tools and services I personally use Right Now – I’ll also (in posts to follow) give you some real evidence of exactly how they helped me.

Hopefully this will show you how A.S.L can really work for you.

Thanks for the great post Carlton,
John.

As always, you have some great advice. One thing I would also add in my experience is that you also have to think – IS This workable for me Right Now in my business.

The product could be fantastic and it could be just what you need, but if might not be right you need right NOW. If you are not able to work it right now then you are most likely going to be wasting your money and it will hurt you more than help you because you will be spending time on it when you should be focused on your current marketing and projects and they will suffer and in the end and you will be running around trying to catch your tail and not know why you are not being successful.

Love, you stuff John, keep it coming.

~ Carlton