I actually got a top 5 things to do in Santorini list…
perhaps I’ll share it with you in one of my next posts.
In case I haven’t already told you this, I love traveling...
And what I’m about to say is just for those of you who love traveling just as much as I do.
To be honest, one of the reasons I love traveling is not just for the thrill of traveling...
but to get to know the people of other lands
to learn about them
to understand them
to appreciate them.
It’s all about the variety of beauty you can discover in different places and different faces.
In fact, I love traveling because I’m passionate about getting to know the amazing different cultures…
in addition to exploring the beautiful different lands that we are blessed to have on this incredible planet.
Not to mention the fact that tours by the locals are always better!
Oh and we can’t forget about the delicious local foods either 🤤
You see, earth to me is like a crayon box with a variety of colors
And I’m grateful it is! I mean, who wants a crayon box full of gray crayons?
To me, the variety of people, cultures, foods and lands are the crayons on this box of a planet, which we can paint our life with.
Of course I know earth is a sphere, not a box
ergo “traveling the globe”.
Anyway, regardless the languages, regardless the distances and regardless our differences...
traveling is a means to that feeling of unity I’m honestly fond of and constantly seek...
that connection with our human family and the different ways we can learn to love.
Traveling is just the vehicle that takes me there, and I hope it takes you too.
In fact, if you haven’t been able to travel as much as you’d like...
or if you haven’t figured out how you can, check out thisisallaboutyou.com to find out how you actually can do this too.
And the clue I’ve been giving is that once you’re in the website, it’s not within the ‘Health’, ‘Fitness’, ‘You’, ‘Space’ or even ‘Travel’ section yet.
Once you find it, you’re on your way ✈️
OK, that’s all I’ve got for now.
Just remember to share this with others to help them too.
Have you ever noticed how certain things seem to significantly motivate us to work on something?
While other times, no matter how much we may want to get something done, we simply procrastinate.
Sometimes we even do what we don’t want to do without even a real reward in the end!
A good example of this is your job
Let’s be honest, when you had or if you still have a job, you would wake up reluctantly...
at a time you wouldn’t want to wake up...
to put on some clothes you don’t really like to wear...
to go work somewhere you don’t want to work.
Why though?
‘Necessity’ might seem like the appropriate or even obvious short answer
Yet, perhaps there’s a little more than that.
Think about it, could it have something to do with your morbid fear of not being able to pay your bills...
of losing your car...
of losing your home...
of losing your basic needs...
of not being able to even eat...
and of losing total respect?
Fear has got a way of manipulating us if we don’t learn to manipulate it!
Still, there’s something deeper than fear...
Can you guess what it is?
It’s pain.
You see, the reason why you would get up at a time you hate, to go work at a place you hate, for someone you probably hate as well...
is because you’re simply trying to avoid the pain that comes with losing everything you fear to lose if you no longer have the income from that job.
In essence, pain is the main culprit
More specifically, the avoidance of pain.
Ever heard of the carrot and the stick?
Well that pain you’re trying to avoid is the stick.
That’s why you’re more likely to go work at some job you hate, than to work on freeing yourself from that job.
You may want to build your own business, yet there’s no serious pain you’re trying to avoid that will get you serious enough to commit and work on your business.
Especially if you’ve become used to or rather comfortable with how things are!
Therefore, if there’s no significant pain you’re trying to avoid, and especially if you’re within your comfort zone...
it’s not surprising why you haven’t gotten started, committed or developed enough self-discipline to continue working on reaching financial independence.
Let alone, when reaching such financial goal, requires some hard work and time upfront!
Then there’s that carrot we mentioned earlier.
The carrot of course represents pleasure
Yet have you applied it to your reason?
In fact, what is your reason, the ‘why’ you want to quit your job and live life on your own terms?
And have you made that reason real and appealing enough to get you up to work towards it?
It’s bad enough not making the pain that will come from inaction, real or significant enough
But also, not tapping into the elated emotions you would feel once your desired goal has manifested, just makes things a lot worse.
Therefore, why not use the carrot and the stick in your favor?
Use the reality of the pain that will result as consequence to you not taking action and the reality of the pleasure that will result from you taking action right now.
Learn what you need to learn about building a successful business and get to work right away!
No one else is going to give you that financial freedom you want
And you’ve got to prove how bad you truly want it to no one else but yourself.
Now, I can point you to the right direction and tell you that online businesses are the best most lucrative businesses to start today...
Specifically Affiliate or Digital Marketing!
Yet, you are the one that has to learn it and put in the work.
YOU have to put in the hustle and grind to make that dream of yours happen.
Top 10 Tools You Need To Start A Successful Online Business
There are actually different types of online businesses you can start, which I’ll talk more about in a different article.
Yet, here are some tools most online businesses need in order to be successful:
1.Domain Name:
First and foremost you need a domain name, which is basically your Internet address.
You know, one of those www dot your domain name dot com links, also known as a URL.
URL stands for ‘Uniform Resource Locator’ by the way.
You can get a domain name at websites like GoDaddy.
They’re usually pretty cheap.
2.Website:
Of course you’ll need a site builder to build your very own website.
Your website is where you provide your value such as content, products and or services.
I personally recommend you build one with WordPress because the tools they provide you to build a website are more professional there.
3.Hosting:
You also need web hosting which is basically like a space you rent online for your website.
Web hosting provides what you need for your website to be able to be viewed by others.
This is the service that publishes your website on the World Wide Web.
Ok enough with the definition!
One of the web host providers I like is GoDaddy, unless you’re able to host through WordPress.
4.Landing Page:
If you’re not able to build a website or don’t want to deal with the whole domain name, website building and hosting process, you can always just get a landing page.
A landing page is basically a page you can rent from another website which provides simple tools for you to set up a page a lot easier.
You may not get your very own URL but again it’s so much easier and faster to set up a landing page.
Landing pages are important because it’s the front page your possible consumers land on to begin their journey on becoming your loyal customers.
I strongly recommend Get Response for this one, because you can create your landing page easily there and they also have other tools that are essential for your online business.
5.Copywriting:
This is important if you want your written content to actually draw people in and keep them interested.
It’s the ability to write in ways that taps into people’s psychology and emotions.
It’s basically persuasive writing!
You need to know copywriting for things like your headlines, titles, subtitles and your paragraphs.
Although you can always just pay someone to do your copywriting for you too.
6.SEO:
SEO stands for Search Engine Optimization.
To put it simply, SEO is knowing how to organize your words within your website so that you can appear high on the list of results in search engines such as Google.
There’s actually more to it such as keywords and backlinks, yet here’s an SEO guide to help you out.
SEO is organic and free, but it takes time to set up and master.
It’s also extremely worth it in the end!
7.Shopify:
This is basically a software that allows you to have an online store and sell your products.
I believe that Shopify is especially useful when it comes to selling physical products online.
8.Products & Services:
Obviously you need products and or services!
What’s an online business without these things.
You can sell just about anything online such as appliances, clothes, webinars and ebooks.
Yet I’ve noticed that some of the most popular things to sell online are things that fall within the relationship & dating, pets supplies, weight-loss supplies and personal finance niches.
Cryptocurrencies seem to be becoming a big deal too, or already are.
9.Affiliate Marketing:
Now, if you don’t have products or services of your own some companies allow you to promote their products and services for a cut on their profit, such as Amazon.
This is basically Affiliate Marketing, where you become an affiliate of companies related to your niche.
Yet some things to consider when finding products and services to promote are identifying what your target market is and doing some market research.
10.Email Marketing:
If you want more than just one time customers then you’re going to need email marketing.
Email marketing is a system you can set up where you ask for people emails to provide them with more relevant, exclusive and real value.
Actually remember Get Response, which I mentioned earlier in ‘Landing Page’, well this is also an awesome source for setting up your email marketing.
There’s actually a whole mess of techniques and science when it comes to email marketing, but it’s easy to learn at Get Response.
BONUS:
Finally, marketing is of course needed if you want to drive traffic to your online business.
Without marketing you basically have a pretty store in the middle of nowhere, where no one can see it.
Therefore I will be bringing up different marketing strategies in another article.
However, if you don’t want to have to wait or look for it, check out the 5 Steps To A Successful Online Business.
They reveal some of the top marketing techniques in 2021 for FREE.
All I ask is that you share this with others to help them too.