There is something about a business, especially a digital online business, that is truly amazing in that it will start slow and then slowly build and one day (assuming all positive steps were taken), it will gain momentum and take off and people will think you’re an overnight success.

Some people call it the snowball effect. This is a great example of the idea of momentum. Start rolling the snowball in your hands, then as it grows you start rolling it on the ground, it finally gets so heavy that it rolls down the hill alone getting bigger as it goes without your help.

Business can be a lot like that. You start out with every position being filled by you. You do the best you can, slowly building up the business until you can finally hire a bookkeeper, then you bring on a banker, an accountant, and a lawyer. You incorporate your business. You hire a business manager, you find a couple great VAs, and bring on a landing page expert. And it continues. You hire what you need, and...

One of the first things you should do now that you realize that you may be working with some money mindset issues is to make a list of the money-making activities that you can do each day and set it in your schedule to do them every single day.

What are Money-Making Activities?

When you ask any business owner to do money-making activities first, sometimes they look at you like you have two heads. But the fact is, a money-making activity is simply an action that gives you an opportunity to earn money from it. Therefore, it’s different for each type of business. But, for a generic online business, the following are all money-making activities:

• List Building Activities – The more careful you are about how you build your list and the bigger the list gets, the more money you’ll make. Create a freebie offer, improve your opt-in form, integrate better technologies, and so forth.
• Affiliate Activities – Your affiliates are probably the first people you should look to...