This is a basic strategy anyone can use to build a home based business in 18 months for free.

Describe in detail, exactly what you want your business to look like in 18 months.

Reverse engineer exactly what it will take to accomplish that – Be Specific!
Identify quarterly milestones – 3mo, 6mo, 9mo, 12mo, 15mo, 18mo and what you will achieve by that time.

Find three strategies (daily action items) that you can allocate 4 hours per day to and complete them every day.
Anyone that is unable to allocate at least 20 hours per week to building their business should not expect any significant results.

These daily action items should meet the needs of the areas you identified for your milestones. Spending 3 hours a day organizing your office and 1 hour on Facebook won’t cut it. Each action should accomplish something that moves you closer to completing each milestone. ie.. GET PAID!

Pick a start date for your plan – like yesterday would be a good place to start – and do those action items every single day, without fail. Even if you have to work from 10pm-2am 7 days a week – JUST DO IT!

Analyze your results as you reach each milestone. This is important! Don’t ever waste time analyzing your results until you have results to analyze. By the time you hit your first milestone at 3 months you should have some pretty good data to look at. Make necessary adjustments and keep going. Until then, keep your head down and work your butt off to reach the milestone.

I can’t stress this enough – IF you want real results – You Must Be Relentless!

As you begin to see results you should find that the time it takes to get your tasks completed for each of the 3 strategies decreases. Either continue to do them yourself, focusing on doing them faster or outsource some of the tasks. What you are aiming for here is freeing up about an hour of your 4 hour workload to use for followup with leads, customers and team members.

By the time you hit the 9 month milestone you’ll probably need to outsource 90%, in order to use most of your time for followup.

Here’s an example of daily action steps you can do:

• Youtube: (45 min) create 1 video, add 40-50 friends, comment on 5-10 videos.
• Blog: (30 mins) Write a post about your video, embed your Youtube video into the post, convert that post into an article, implement as part of your Article strategy.
• Articles: (1 hour) write 3-5 articles, submit to top article sites.
• FaceBook: (30 min) add 30-40 friends, comment on 5-10 friends.
• BackLinks: (1 hour) 30-40 to money site, 15-20 to Twitter, Myspace, Squidoo, Forum profiles, etc.
• Forums: (30 mins) Find 3-4 forums that fit your niche market, reply to 2 threads on ea., start 2 new threads on ea.
• Twitter: (30 min) add 100 friends, Tweet 7-10x throughout the day (Tweet about & link to, everything you did that day – your articles, blog post, Myspace blog, invite to connect on Facebook, etc.)

Pick and choose what best fits your personality.
If you don’t like Facebook use Myspace. If you like LinkedIn, use that. My strong recommendation is that you have a cycle that looks something like this no matter which web 2.0 properties and media outlets you choose.

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