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We recently launched our Website Remote service. It allows you to centrally manage and update your WordPress sites.\n\nWe created it because there was no good way to manage all our WordPress sites from one location. The other solutions that "tried" to do it, sucked!\n\nSolve a real problem. It doesn't matter if "a" solution already exists. It probably sucks. Yours will be better.\n\nWhen we put Website Remote together, and had our new affiliates sell and market our existing Backup Creator plugin, I had a few realizations...\nRealization #1: Get Out More\nYou don't have to confine yourself to little sites like the Warrior Forum. You can use other peoples' land to build a list, but don't live there.\n\nThis is true when it comes not just to pricing and positioning your products, but also what advice or training you listen to.\n\nYour business is your business. You're free to charge whatever price you want, limit the number of sales,\xa0email as often as you want.\xa0Update your blog or submit podcasts as frequently as you feel like, because you can. You don't need any reason for why you're doing what you're doing in your\xa0online business, other than because you can.\nRealization #2:\xa0Eat Your Own Dog Food\nIf you actually use the products you create and sell, then you can't use because it's\xa0something that helps your business regardless of how slow or quickly it sells.\n\nThe programming term "eating your own dog food" means that if you use the thing you sell every day, then you'll transform it to a piece of crap into something that's useful.\n\nTo make our tool useful, we iterated. I created a simple version of our tool, and had Lance login sight unseen and show me how he was using it, and where he got stuck, to see his thought process. This is called hallway testing.\n\nBecause of "dog-fooding", we added SSL support for our Paper Template, Member Genius, and Video Player plugins this month, and made them all compatible with WordPress caching plugins, because we needed those things in place for our launch.\n\nThis past couple of weeks, we launched our new version of Backup Creator (3.0) and had an army of affiliates make us a bunch of sales, without us using our list at all. We gave away 100% commissions, and the point wasn't to make money but to recruit some new affiliates and build a list of buyers.\nRealization #3:\xa0Treat Your Business Like a Real Business\nWe created the minimum viable product (version 1.0) and the launch deadline pushed us into gear and got our priorities in order.\n\nGet that first version out there, and market the hell out of it. Don't make any rash moves like offering discounts or lifetime access which shouldn't be on your radar for a long time until you can "run the numbers."\n\nPrice your offers where there's buying resistance. Don't give into the mob. You might just need better marketing.\n\nWe need to do a little better with the positioning on Website Remote\xa0to compete against free, inferior, and generally worse "similar" products (not necessarily competitors).\nRealization #4: Follow the "Four Daily Tasks" in Order to Get Everything Done\nFour Daily Tasks means you should complete four business-related tasks, each in one sitting (three 45 minute sessions and one 10 minute session). Every day, complete the four tasks that get you closer to making more money.\n\nI'm at my best when I alternate days between proactive business-building tasks (traffic and product creation), and on alternate days, business-maintenance tasks like answering\xa0support desk tickets.\n\nAutomate your business as much as you can, for example, queue up autoresponder emails for the week\xa0so there are no distractions.\nSimple Words of Advice\nIt takes the same amount of energy to feed your dreams as it does your fears.\nMake a list of things that make you happy. Make a list of things you do every day. Compare the lists. Adjust accordingly.\n\n12 things successful people do differently:\n\n \tThey Create and Pursue FOCUSED Goals\n \tThey Take Decisive and Immediate ACTION