A few months ago I read Tim Ferriss’ excellent book The Four Hour Work Week. My biggest takeaway from The Four Hour Work Week was this nugget: “If you want to become super productive you need to go on a Low Information Diet.”
His advice made a ton of sense to me. Shut off the TV and kill the radio while in the car, and in the process you will free your mind from the daily barrage of news and commercial media that does nothing but scramble your mind and keep you from being focused on the work that needs to be done.
And this worked . . . . to a degree. I was more focused and more things were getting accomplished. But I was still not as productive as I wanted to be. Because of this, I needed to take this concept of a “Low Information Diet” to another level. And thanks to a brilliant marketer from Australia by the name of James Schramko, I received a tip that literally tripled my productivity within 24 hours.
Recently, I was searching the archives of The Warrior Forum where I found this April 2009 post by James Schramko. The title to this powerful post is: “3 Years Later — My Biggest Success Tip for $$$.”
In this short post James reveals the number one tip that has catapulted him to massive internet marketing success.
Here is the entire Warrior Forum post by James Schramko:
I just noticed I joined here three years ago.
Back then I was working full time and trying to
figure it all out. I have since quit working for
someone else and have my own IM business.
I have several six figure business models running
now and this was only possible because of the
following action I took.
Since doing this one thing I have had several
six figure months.
Here it is:
** Get off all those email lists **
Yes – as soon as you unsubscribe from every crap
email list you will free up three hours a day and
you can get into creating products.
You will be able to implement many of the ideas
and training materials you have bought along the
way too!
Seriously – Your output will be inversely opposite
to the number of email lists you subscribe to.
Don’t fool your self into thinking you will miss an
important message or technique. Many marketers only
have one technique – greed.
Try it for a month and tell me what happens!
If you are like me and most internet marketers, you are on far too many email lists. And you probably spend countless hours every day reading emails and then going down a bottomless pit in search of the “Next Big Thing” from the latest Internet Marketing Guru.
Please Stop It . . . NOW!
Seriously. Takes James Schramko’s Million Dollar Advice and get off those mailing list. This simple, yet profound act will free your mind and allow you to focus on what is most important — and that is “Serving” your marketplace and building your business.
Stop looking for money makers and pick a market to serve. Get off of these internet marketing mailing lists and focus you time on delivering value to a group of people you want to have as customers.
Do you have any idea what a liberating feeling it is go to your computer every morning and see only two or three emails, instead of 20 to 25 emails that are nothing but affiliate promotions from a bunch of Internet Marketing Gurus who habitually promote products without reviewing or testing them?
I have made the business decision to listen to just a small, select group of “Professional” Internet Marketers. And this group consists of James Schramko, Jerry West, Michael Campbell and Gauher Chaudhry. Yes, there are a few more that are worthy. But in my book, this group is about as good as it gets. And what I admire most about these four great marketers is that “They all put their integrity ahead of their affiliate check.”
This collection of elite marketers will only promote products they have either tested or reviewed in great detail, and they only promote products they believe in. They are marketers with character — which rare in today’s “Internet Marketing Guru Crowd.”
Who you follow in this market is your business. But I will say this . . . . your productivity will increase threefold, if not more, if you get off all of those mailing list and pick just two or three Internet Marketing “Teachers” who have a history of delivering great content to their students.
Take James Schramko’s advice and try it for just one month — and watch your productivity skyrocket!
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