If you are serious about achieving success

If you are serious about achieving success as a Direct Marketer or Product Developer, start by answering these questions.

Thirteen Questions

1. What is my goal this year? Be specific. Instead of answering, "Make a lot of money," come up with an answer based on your Fendi Sunglasses personal reality. For example, your answer might be, "Learn enough about running a subscription website that I can generate at least ￡2000 a month income from membership fee's alone."

2. What are the 'models of success' of others who have reached this goal? It helps a great deal to identify other product developers or companies that have attained the goal you are trying to achieve. Look at what they are doing, and how they are doing it. See what works for them, and what hasn't worked. Try to find a 'model' you can use as your guideline.

3. What is my strategy for reaching my goal? After you have identified your goal and a few models of success, it's time to start formulating your own strategy. Avoid the mistake of trying to 'over complicate' your strategy. Keep it simple, with as few steps as needed. Adapt your strategy to meet your own skills, schedule, and budget.

4. What tools or skills will I need to acquire to reach my goal? With most projects, you'll need to acquire some additional skills, equipment and tools. You'll want to identify most of these before you start - as doing so will help you understand the budgetary needs and time requirements. With some goals, you may find the skills and equipment needed are beyond your budget or learning level - a good time to find out is before you start the project.

5. What is my timetable? Before starting a project is is a good idea to develop a long term and short term timetable. The long term timetable should have specific 'accomplish by' dates leading to the final Chanel Sunglasses,goal. The short term timetable should be more detailed and cover the acquisition of tools, learning of skills, development of test projects, etc.