What Is The Most Important Quality Required for Seniors to Succeed Online?

If you’re short on time, the answer is… CONSISTENCY!

Consistency is, without a doubt, the most important quality than any senior or, for that matter, any entrepreneur needs to have to build a successful online business.

Maybe Rome wasn’t built in a day, but they were laying bricks every hour. One of the biggest reasons most people fail at online marketing is because of a lack of consistency.

If you start a blog, you should aim for one or two blog posts a day… every day. If you’re making videos for YouTube, aim to make a video daily or every other day.

Whether you work on your business daily, or once every two or three days, it is important that you have a fixed schedule and stick to it. Consistent action creates consistent results.

Inch by Inch Life’s a Cinch

There’s an old saying, “Inch by inch, life’s a cinch. Yard by yard, life is hard.” This is especially true for seniors trying to find their footing online. It would be a huge task to learn it all in a day or even a month.

You’ll need to do a little each day. Today, learn how to buy a domain. The next day, learn how to point the nameservers to your hosting. The day after that, learn how to install WordPress… and a couple of days after that, make your first post.

Do it in baby steps.  Your progress will be slow, but it will be sure progress. You’ll not discourage yourself by struggling to do too much.

What do you call this slow and steady approach?

You call it consistency. That’s what you call it.

Repetition is Mother of Skill

Anything you do over and over will become easier. The first website will always be the hardest to create. The first video (should you choose to make one) will be the most awkward to do. The first blog post you write will be the toughest.

That’s because it’s all new to you and you’re learning as you’re doing. Repetition is crucial for us to get better at what we do. Repetition leads to mastery… and you can only have repetition if you’re consistent.

Taking breaks that are too long will cause you to lose ground. Daily action even for short periods, is better than long hours of action that happens once every couple of months. Consistent action will make you more proficient in every skill you’re trying to master.

Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication

Initially, you should keep things simple. Try to be ‘good enough’ rather than to be “perfect.” Really, there is no such thing as perfection, and even excellence takes a long time to achieve.

Simplicity allows for repetition and consistency. If you take two weeks to create a fantastic video for you site, two weeks will be gone and you will have only one video. You’ll better off creating several videos that may not be excellent, but are good enough to watch.

You can spend 20 to 30 minutes a day working on that one ‘fantastic’ video… while at the same time consistently focusing on creating several other ‘good enough’ videos.

When you’re online, good content is king. The more content you have out there, the better. So, be consistent and put out good stuff. As you improve over time, creating excellent content will become much faster and easier. Start small and do a lot.

Always remember that what you do every day matters more than what you do once in a while. Be consistent and make measurable progress in reasonable time.