Every day more and more opportunities are available to the Internet Marketer. New opportunities for businesses, partnerships, joint ventures, affiliate promotions, advertising packages, and on and on. I get joint venture proposals from people on a daily basis now and frankly I just can’t keep up with them. Everyday my email inbox is filled with new affiliate contests, offers, and products for me to promote. And every day there seems to be a new hot product on the market that promises to revolutionize my business.

So how you do you deal with opportunity overload? If you were how I used to be, you would jump from one thing to the next and have about 50 different projects or ideas started without one of them ever coming to fruition. Like a kid in a candy store I used to gobble up opportunities and drool at possibilities. However, I never got very far with about 99.5% of them. I can’t even begin to tell you how many thousands of dollars I wasted on scripts and software that I still to this day have never used. Oh, and all the domain names I have bought over the years actually thinking I was going to create a website for. Sound familiar?

The only true way to beat opportunity overload and actually bring your business to its full potential is with dedicated focus and awareness. This means not starting a new project until you have actually finished the one you’ve already started. At most I only focus on two or three projects at a time until they are finished. Let me repeat that “until they are finished”. A website that’s 90% complete is nice, but it makes you nothing.

Also recognize what’s diverting your focus. Maybe keeping your email open all day long and checking it constantly isn’t the best use of your time. Ask yourself if you really need that marketing package or revolutionary software right now when you haven’t even finished making the updates or changes to your website that you know you need.

Unfortunately I see people every day hopping from one business opportunity to the next, not realizing it’s not so much the opportunity as it is themselves. That used to be me, don’t let it be you.

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