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I'm getting fat
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My Dad worked hard all his life. His work was hard manual labor. To keep food on the table he would take jobs driving a snow plow and many times had to go out in the middle of the freezing night and plow. Until he owned his own business he barely made enough money to scrape by. He worked for over 50 years, and while he is comfortable and debt free, is not considered rich.
Just over 10 years ago two college kids had an idea for a search engine. They tried to sell it but couldn't so they did it themselves. Now each is a multi-billionaire and still very young. In the grand scheme of life, it would almost seem equitable that Dad would be a billionaire since he labored harder and longer than those two guys. The two guys should have to labor for another 40 years to get that status. We all know that it doesn't work that way. Shouldn't Dad have the rewards that come from hard work? Should Dad have to look longingly at the new car at the dealership and walk away because he doesn't know if he should spend little money he has for such a pleasure? Why is it so that the two guys can buy a parking lot full of new cars and not even dent their net worth, while Dad has to take a large chunk of his life's savings for just one? Luck, yes for sure by a large margin, intelligence yes, but also hiring good people played a large roll. After working like a dog today on some technical things I got thinking about all of this. Unless I make a sale, all my hard work doesn't really give me brownie points. It doesn't bring me much closer to wealth. Only if I focus on the things that bring wealth will it occur. To me that means more outsourcing and less getting caught up on the little things. My Dad never hired anyone, never trusted anyone else to do the job. He had to do it to get it right. He could have a lot more wealth if he learned to work smarter, not harder. |
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I don't want to be a billionaire but do want to not have to worry about the affects of my next purchase. Now thats not to say I would turn down being a billionaire lol Who would have taught that you could make 10 million a year working a few hours a week will a lame looking dating site. Ask the geek who owns Plenty Of Fish dating site... And I had 5 dating sites setup collecting dust for years and just let them expire... Going to shoot myself now... J/K | |
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Please get a net biz plan
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Agreed!
Smart work nets more profits than unfocused hard work - especially with today's internet. TL |
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That is very true.
Working hard to work less in the future is alright, but if you plan to make a living from working hard all your life, then by the time you cannot work hard anymore you'll be very limited with your money. It is only those who have the vision of working less, and making more money at the same time that actually reach that type of freedom. |
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Very true...my first year online I worked like a dog 20+ hours a day and more, sometimes much more...it wasn't till I stepped back and started to think about how to automate as many things as possible that things really took off. Its harder sometimes to delegate cuz you want things done right, but you must eventually.
But looking back...I couldn't have stepped back and eased off without the knowledge and experience that the massive hard work of that first year brought...so *shrugs* |
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So many marketers work HARD, they just work hard incorrectly. Smart focused work is the real way to go, but smart work is more difficult than hard work.
Sure, I could pump out 20 articles a day. But at that rate, they are probably lacking keyword research and proper grammar. That is hard work, but it isnt accomplishing much. Then there is a focused effort to write just 5 articles a day. These articles have proper keyword research, proper keyword density. The subjects were researched prior to writing. Therefore, these 5 focused, smartly written articles will produce more results than the 20 articles. |
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Agreed.....!
Working hard to work less in the future is alright, but if you hard working without goal is useless..... |
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Very very true. There are a lot of great books that prove this. Rich Dad Poor Dad is always a favorite of mine.
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Yep, article marketing is a great example of this principle. I once tested it. I sat down and wrote about 40 articles from what I knew in my head about a topic. Took a few days. I was mentally wrung out when I finished. It was hard mental work. Then I took about one day to really research keywords and the specifics of another topic, and then wrote about 10 articles from that information. You probably know where I'm heading with this.... those 10 articles pull(ed) a LOT more visitors to my sites than did the 40. One of them became the most viewed article at EZA in its category over a 90-day period. It's still ranked #1 at Google for that keyword, matter of fact.
You can be construction worker or an architect. It's completely up to you. Architects make a whole lot more money and feel a whole lot less exhausted at the end of the day. John |
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Scott: You bring up some good points.
Have you ever heard of Harvey Brody? He discusses some of these issues in a recent interview. I have posted the info (with permission - you can check the last page for distribution rights) at: http://shoprenfrewcounty.com/harveyb...llposition.pdf The file is small (about 85K) with 38 pages of some of the best material I have ever read about making money! |
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In my Dad's day, hard work was supposed to equal decent pay. Today, nothing could be further from the truth. But having said that, hard work is the only thing that is going to bring you any rewards when it comes to IM. Therer is nothing "easy" when it comes to making money online. You must be ready to work for the long haul.
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Strategic laziness equals wealth
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I'm getting fat
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Most if not all successful people actually do work very hard
at what they do: it's usually the only way to put in the hours required to get really good at your career. If you do marketing you have to pay your dues and educate yourself. This requires an investment of time. Some catch-on and progress faster, but it's really not a race. If you keep plugging away at the details while developing your larger vision too, you can accomplish quite a lot in your lifetime. If making a lot of money is what you want to do, it's common for many people to overestimate what they can accomplish in a year's time... and underestimate what they can accomplish in a lifetime. Overnight success stories like the Brin and Page are great, but as a practical matter running a web start-up type business like they did is fraught with financial peril. Most fail. If you want definitive success, work on your skills. Ted Nicholas says you can learn copywriting to a professional level in 500-1000 hours of study - and that's a skill that can be leveraged in a lot of interesting ways. Other skills are not very leverageable, so it makes sense to determine where your aptitudes and interests are, decide what you want to accomplish in the long-term and develop your skills and marketing plan along pragmatic lines. There's a practical ceiling in a lot of trades. I find this as a writer myself, so I think "what's the way to expand here," and start to think in terms of publishing - and lo and behold I find a lot of role models of writers who became publishers and did quite well: Nicholas, Melvin Powers, Christian Godefroy, and Felix Dennis, who is silly-rich and wrote a book about how it happened. |
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Hey Scott,
Times have changed since our dad's days. As a former construction worker for many years, I know what it's like to work hard for a weekly check. Now as a full time Internet Marketer, I work just as hard, if not harder but I like working Online. My tools are Good Ideas and Creativity, and for me it beats construction. My youngest son who is now 21 loves working construction. Even though he could make more money working with me, he just likes working hard with his hands. Now someone with a Good Idea can make a Bazillion Dollars online, where a guy working for a weekly check is going to get just that. Sometimes I miss the old Construction days, just go to work and pick up a check on Friday, no stress, no problems... All The Best! |
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Leverage equals wealth outsourcing etc . Make more money getting other people to do the things that are boring or your not good at .
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He didn't grow up in a world where you could create a digital product (ebook or software) and reach millions of people. Where he could outsource a job to someone in India or even one where you could create and float a product in a week. Those two guys (Google) were the recipients of great timing and their parent's bucks (to attend college). Lightning may strike and create a fire every once in awhile but for most people in the past they had to rub two stones together with brute force to get dinner going. If they developed pride in doing that you can hardly blame them. Google had lightning timing - depending on that kind of timing wouldn't have fed your father's family and you wouldn't be where you are without that work ethic. You can't compare people from the non digital age to the generation of the hyper-digital age. Its not a fair comparison. If personal computers were all rendered useless by an electromagnetnic pulse you'd be surprised how much your work habits and smarts would resemble your dad's. You would't know a thing about IM and wouldn't care. But maybe your dad is even smarter than you. Maybe he gave what you needed so that one day in the not too distant future you can buy him that car while he's laying back in his easy chair. All kinds of routes to success and and kinds of success
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Your correct, hard work definitely does not mean wealth by any means. You should work smarter, not harder. The hardest working people are never the ones making the money.
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Why cant we replace the word HARD with SMART?
Work Smart! Live Smart! |
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True enough! i always tell myself to work smart and not to work hard. Working hard doesn't mean that you are doing the right thing. Always think before you act so to speak and when you figure out what works then you keep scaling it up!
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Determination is the key to success!
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