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Your 52-Card Marketing Action Plan
By: Debbie LaChusa

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When I was at Mark Victor Hansen's Mega Marketing
Magic seminar , he gave everyone in
attendance a stack of "Mega Action Cards."

The stack was actually a tablet of 52 cards,
one for each week of the year.

The challenge?

To dedicate yourself to implementing one idea
a week for 52 weeks. The suggestion was to select
ideas from those we were learning over the
three-day event, and actually commit to implementing
those ideas.

What a great idea!

After all, how mny of us have attended seminars
and cme back home with new ideas nly to end up
shoving them in a drwer to never again to see
the lght of day.

We're certainly not ging to grow our business
that wy.

The only way to grow your business is to take
action every single day. There's always more
to learn, but at some point you just have to
go for it.

If you over analyze every single idea and you're
always waiting until you learn a little bit more
before you step out and try something, your
business will grow slowly, if at all.

You can't be afraid to just do it.

If you'd like to read an article
I wrote on this topic, visit
http://www.10stepmarketing.com/fire.htm

It wasn't always this way.

But in the past two years I've found I'm able to
accomplish so much more if I take action sooner
rather than later.

Sure, you may take a few ms-steps when you do
this, but yu'll also learn and move your bsiness
forward a whole lot faster thn if you sit back
and wit until you've got everything mastered.

As a rcovering perfectionist, this was a big
shft for me, but it has pid off big-time.

I'd like to chllenge you to adopt this "take
action" mentality with your business.

Ask yourself every week, what's one action you
can take to move your business forward. And don't
be afraid to go out on a limb.

In addition to pulling ideas from your marketing
plan, I encourage you to continue learning new
ways to market and build your business. And start
implementing those new ideas along with your
planned activities.

Currently I'm on week 3 in my 52-card Marketing
Action Plan, and I intend to continue implementing
at least one idea every week. The first 3 weeks
have been very productive so I know if I can keep
it up I'll have an amazing year.

How about you?

What's one action you can take this week to move
your business forward?

I encourage you to write it down and take it.

(C) Copyright 2006 Debbie LaChusa

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