By Mikael
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If you have been running an online business of some sort for any period of time you probably have a very good idea of what is required in order to become as successful as you would like to become. This applies to both Adsense sites, affiliate sites, ecommerce sites and every other way that you, as a webmaster, can make money online.
The things that you will have to do might differ, but there is still a very narrow set of things that you must do on a consistent basis.
Adsense Sites Example
Because I focus on Adsense as an income stream let me take you through the basic things that will lead you to success in this field.
1. Find good keywords
2. Write good articles for the website
3. Get incoming links (requires both time and more article writing)
That is it! Sounds simple right? The fact is that it is simple but not necessarily easy to do. The problem is hardly ever the things you need to do but the fact that you need to do them over and over and over and over…. And you need to keep doing it for a very long time.
So if that is the problem, then how do you solve it?
Most people starting out trying to make money with Adsense will start massively but quickly slow down when results are not showing. This is very understandable but the problem is that they are often telling themselves that they’re doing something wrong and they can’t see that it is the “stopping” that is the problem.
But if we can all agree that all we have to do is keep doing these three things over and over again, then all we need is to solve the consistency problem.
One solution is that you do it yourself. But by simply looking around we can see that this isn’t working. So if you aren’t able / willing to do it, then you will find another way to get it done. This means that someone else will have to do it for you.
I quickly learned that writing a ton of articles every single day for a long period of time were not for me. Not only did I find it extremely boring but I also quickly found other things that I HAD to do which, as a result, made me unable to do the articles. 
The end result was that the business stopped growing or even declined.
Unfortunately the same problem applies to linkbuilding in my case. So basically there are two out of three things that I hate doing but without these two there will be no business. Sitting around finding great niches and keywords will not make a successful business.
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My solution was that I needed to find someone that could help me do the part of the three things that I wouldn’t want to do myself. What you like doing and what you hate doing will be individual but luckily you can find someone that will do all three things for you. I’m talking about outsourcing.
Some will likely argue that outsourcing tasks will cost you money and that is very true. It will, but not necessarily as much as you think.
What you need to ask yourself is whether or not you will be doing the three things (and I do mean ALL three) every single day. If you can’t honestly say yes to this then you need an alternative solution. The business simply will not work without one or more of the components.
What I did in the beginning was to accept doing the things I hate doing for a small period of time. As soon as I had built a small business that would generate a little income I quickly invested that income into having other people doing what I hated.
That is why I have now hired a fulltime article writer and a fulltime linkbuilder. Simply because I know that the work has to be done every day but I don’t want to do it. I am actually looking for another article writer as we speak and I can’t wait to get him/her onboard. 
The results of making a decision to have other people doing the work for me have been huge. My business has never grown this much in such a short time and the reason is simply that now everything gets done on a daily basis (which it didn’t when I was doing it).
So I encourage you to think hard and long about what it is that is stopping you. I’ll bet that it is not a matter of you not having the required knowledge but rather that you’re not getting as much done on a consistent basis as you should in order to get the results that you want.
Am I right?
To Your Success,
Mikael
By Mikael
I’ve never been good at writing compelling headlines so please don’t judge this post solely on the headline
What I want to talk to you about in the post is why I find that success is best achieved through using structure and systems. We’re not going to talk about what “success” is because we have talked about this topic several times and success is indeed individual and based more on a feeling that on materials goods.
But this post will talk about financial success and business success and in those two areas I find that having a plan, a structure and systems will help you move forward a lot faster and help you avoid creating yourself just another job but instead creating some time freedom and financial freedom in the process.
What Is Structure?
When we talk about “structure” it is a matter of having something laid out either on paper or in some other visual form. Few people will probably be able to have everything in their head but for most that is not the case and too many things are dropped on the floor if you try to avoid writing it down.
Besides this, not having it written in a clear and easy to understand way greatly reduces your chances of achieving the time freedom that you would want.
Making your plan visible will not only help you from forgetting what you had in mind but it will also help you see where you plan and idea might be missing some vital areas. Some people will create flow charts, others will create mind maps and some will do both (as they are not substitutes) but how you go about making it visual is really not that important. Doing it is what counts!
Why You Need Systems
Now that you have your visual structure in place it will be a lot easier to create systems and processes that will help you do everything as efficient as possible. But that is really only a small part of it and especially if you want time freedom. Having thing be efficient will naturally help you save time, reduce costs and therefore increase profits and all of these are important to have financial and business success.
The real benefit of having systems in place that are explained in visual processes that other people can understand is that you can have other people do the work for you. Unless you are able to let other people do the work for you, you have only created another JOB for yourself.
By paying other people for their time (with money) you have given yourself the ultimate gift… time! Naturally this will only work as long as your structures, processes and systems will produce more profits than you’re paying other people for their time but that is probably not a surprise.
Do You Have Structure and Systems In Place?
Now I am not pointing any fingers here because until a few years ago I didn’t really get that clearly defined processes and systems were important in order to become rich and have a lot of free time. I could only see that if I did this and this I would make more money. The problem was that “I” was always in the sentence.
Ever since something or someone (can’t remember what it was) opened my eyes I had never thought of designing and implementing systems and processes from the beginning.
You don’t want to wait until you’re swamped with work and don’t have the time to get it all down on paper. Start now while you have the time and you will be saving a ton of time in the end.
To Your Success,
Mikael
By Mikael
If you have been wondering why I haven’t been posting in the last week or so it has nothing to do with not working as much as I usually do but rather the exact opposite. Through TKA I am now even more structured in my approach to my online business and because of this structure I’ve been able to get a lot more done in a short amount of time because I constantly know what to do next. Exciting but also exhausting at the same time.
We humans have different preferences and methods of working effectively and what might be the right choice for some will be totally inappropriate for others. There is no right or wrong way but in the end it is the results that count and they are often easy to measure and compare.
But let me share a little with you about what I have been doing for the last 6 days.
As you might already know I have a few people from the Philippines helping me out in my business and besides what I have been doing, they have also been working focused on the tasks that I have given them. As a group we are currently building one new website per week, while improving and expanding 6 other websites at the same time.
On top of that I am currently running a test of Unique Article Wizard (UAW) on another website in order to getter a better view of how and what benefits it can provide to a website where it is the only linkbuilding applied.
When the day is done I will normally spend 1-2 hours listening or watching different training seminars or podcasts to make sure that I stay focused and on top of my area of business.
You can probably imagine that doing all of these things at the same time and being the one that is coordinating everyone’s efforts and make sure that everything gets done in the right sequence and the right way will require strict structure.
Mark and Court at TKA have some great ideas on how to manage linkbuilding in a structured way in an Excel sheet. Their method beats the one I used beforehand and I have therefore instantly adopted their methods and I must say that it has made everything easier and given me a better overview of the businesses. Being a visual person having everything in a sheet just makes it so much better.
What have you been doing for the last 6 days?
To Your Success,
Mikael
P.S. Oh… and I almost forgot that I managed to get a business plan draft finished as part of Nicolas Prudhon’s Advanced SEO Mastery Course also.
Mikael Rieck is the author of more than hundred articles on topics of how to make money both online and offline. He has been online since 1999 and has always had a passion for money making opportunities and teaching others how to make a profit.