Hey... but I specifically intended couple months to browsing forums and gathering info, before jumping in IM... its may be someone else's experience, but its still experience
I really like the way you point out the action, it is really what the newbies need in order to be a successful internet marketer
The hard part is staying on task. Even if a newbie goes as far as taking action and doesn't see some results almost immediately, it's hard not to get discouraged. You've been told that the system you're doing works and when it doesn't work for you, especially if you believe you've gone about it correctly, that's tough to overcome. So when people say to be persistent and hang in there, that's true.
Thanks Mike, you need to learn to master 2 thing. First, that there is no system that would guarantee you perfect results. I can only tell you hear or on my blog about what works for me, nothing more. Second, being discourage is human nature; mastering how to deal with it is being a professional I believe that each person can get the results. It will be with there actions, motivation and the system they create along the way Cheers, Mukul
Great advice, consistency and focus would be the most important IMHO, plus always learn from success and failure.
It seems that I can't find the quick reply text box if I click Reply With Quote. @ mdvonline I mean you should arrange your site and make more web pages which are linked up eachother with hyperlinks. You homepage contains too many stuff that people can hardly find what they want. You can divide these contents into serveral parts and make a new web page for each.
I have the "learning to fail" part just perfect. I'm ready to teach it. I spend and spend and spend. Then I apply and apply and apply, but no sales. It's uncanny. Then I got back to spending....but now everything looks the same. Same ol' BS back and forth. Much of sales copy looks like it all came from the same writer. The pain train has come and gone! -- whoo-whoo!!!! When's the success train coming?
That's true. Trying out different methods, and find the one that we enjoy is very important. I have chat with someone who sell solely through traffic exchanges. He does not mind 9 hours of clicking. I tried for one day, and needed 3 days to recuperate.
Part of learning to fail is to use that failure to build your success's Thomas Edison on the light bulb. He failed 10,000 times. He said one of these times he is bound to get it right Cheers, Mukul That is hilarious....I get people approach me and I dont trade time for money often (I did a blog on it last week) and they try to convince me that traffic exchange is not that much time. I am like, well when I travel, they are like 15 minutes a day only. I dont want to work when I travel unless it is something I enjoy : That is my Traffic Exchange rant of the day, hope you are recovered
Very sound advice here. I think you hit the nail on the head and probably touched some peoples nerves with a couple of your comments. The ones that stuck out to me are 1) Go do something! and 2) Focus until the end. I struggle with these myself on occasion but solved a lot of my problems by writing down a weekly planner of what I want to get accomplished. I leave some breathing room for forums and things like that, but when I come into the office, I know exactly what needs to be done that day. At times I'll jump right on it, I'll get things done and that leaves time for me to start other projects, read forums, or do whatever else I want to do. At times I might get started on doing something else related to marketing my websites. Another thing this has solved is sticking to things until the end. I want to test out things thoroughly. How can you know if article marketing works for you by posting 2 articles to ezinearticles and then quitting? You don't. Therefore, I try to write into my planning how long I'm going to test things out. I don't even look at the results much until I reach my target goal. For example, submit 20 articles to article directories... I don't do this in a single day, I do it over the course of a couple of weeks. This means that I don't care how much traffic I'm getting until a couple of weeks later, or try not to. This game is all about testing, but you have to properly test or you'll never find what works.
The hard part with sticking with something for me has been not knowing what to expect. For example, if I'm writing articles and promoting an affiliate product in my signature, I'm kind of going at it blind. I don't know what I should be looking for in terms of sales, and traffice and how long that should take before I pull the plug. also, sometimes I'm not sure if it's the product I'm promoting, my writing, or just "one of those things" that didn't work at that time. All of that uncertainty makes for a very difficult situation, because I don't know then, exactly what needs to be "fixed".
Great points. I just went down to Tim Hortons (Coffee shop) down stairs and broke focus barriers I have been trying for the last couple days. Sometimes being with a piece of paper alone works well. Part of sticking til the end is not knowing all the details and figuring things out. No one knows what will happen, you adjust and move on.
Very nice post. I learned alot And im with you for 100% about failing. Some of my friends tryed to make some income from web but they gived up coz of fails