Like Stuart, I’ve also been asked alot of questions on beginning internet marketing.
though there’s one issue that keeps popping up that I really need to address.
It’s called making excuses.
Many a times, when someone is beginning something, they make excuses on how new they are.
about how little they know, about how difficult it is to succeed, about why after they do ’so much’, there’s no money coming in.
Hey, stay focused man. When I’m beginning out, i’m kinda like this also, but I have the, urm, ‘fortunate’ thing to be repeatedly butt-kicked by Andrew Wee about being SOLUTION-FOCUSED.
Too many a times, we focus on the wrong things.
For example, if you set up a website, blog, etc… Paste some adsense codes and expect 1,000,000 visitors to come in to click on your ads, fat chance. There’s a zillion web pages out there. you are just ONE puny little page. So what you need to do is…. Make your site well-known.
Participate in good forums, leave blog comments, ANYTHING.
I always tell my wife this quote:
“It’s okay to be make mistakes, but never make the mistake of not acknowledging your mistakes”
Sooo, it’s alrite to be new, it’s alrite to be slow, it’s alrite to not know alot of things,
but it’s stooopid to not do something about it.
Last but not least, what’s your why?
If you have a compelling reason to succeed, you’ll do whatever it takes to succeed.
If you want financial freedom because you want to be rich, that’s not compelling enough.
If you want to be rich, so that you want to travel the world and help more misfortunate people,
give out to the needy, etc… tat’s more compelling…
hope this changes your ‘newbie’ mindset a little bit.
love,
ming