What Mistake(s) Have You Made? I Have Made Few of Them

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It's chinese wisdom inside a red packet I got from Go Green Festival that said

If you take others' mistakes as your own, you'll avoid a lot of them.
Bai Shui Sheng Di
And some of warriors advice people to fail fast.

Fail as fast as possible.
(I know the meaning is getting us taking action)

I've been thinking if I get the feeling of others' mistakes, I'd save a lot of energy from getting waste.

I've made several mistake myself.

*Not focus enough, led astray
*Buy WSO and didn't take action
*Learning, learning, learning but not doing

I supposed these three are the most wanted culprits :p

So, what mistake have you made?
#made #mistakes
  • Profile picture of the author theviralguy
    I have made a lot of mistakes but they have helped me learn so much. I have been in IM for only one year and have learned more in this one year then all my other years together (I am only 19). I was definitely a culprit for "Learning, Learning, Learning but not doing" but I am now very successful after learning from all of these mistakes and finally "doing" a few months ago.
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  • Profile picture of the author John Rogers
    Originally Posted by Og Mandino View Post

    I've made several mistake myself.

    *Not focus enough, led astray
    *Buy WSO and didn't take action
    *Learning, learning, learning but not doing
    You forgot

    *Borrowing the name of a well known and widely respected personal development guru

    It's not helping your credibility.

    John
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    • Profile picture of the author Marhelper
      Originally Posted by John Rogers View Post

      You forgot

      *Borrowing the name of a well known and widely respected personal development guru

      It's not helping your credibility.

      John
      Personally, I love the name.Og is (was) my favorite author of all time. Very kewl.
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      • Profile picture of the author Og Mandino
        Originally Posted by John Rogers View Post

        You forgot

        *Borrowing the name of a well known and widely respected personal development guru

        It's not helping your credibility.

        John
        Originally Posted by gotdmw View Post

        Og Mandino... thats funny i thought that guy passed some years ago... i would say that is probably your biggest mistake thus far...
        LOL.. I didn't realise that John is talking about me. Haha...
        So does gotdmw. That makes 3 people questioning my nickname.

        Well, as I tell above. I use Og Mandino as my nickname because it keeps remind me very important thing.

        I use Og Mandino as my nickname also in my country, no one ever questioning about it - I suppose it's because no one there recognize the man.

        Hmm... some people have problem with my nickname, perhaps I should ask Allen if I can change it.

        Originally Posted by Marhelper View Post

        Personally, I love the name.Og is (was) my favorite author of all time. Very kewl.
        That is so brave of you. Standing at the opposite.

        Salute
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  • Profile picture of the author rainspeak
    I've made my share but I think the biggest ones are when I'm being lazy and wasting valuable time. I see all mistakes as education rather than failures. Thanks.
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  • Profile picture of the author J Bold
    Spent too much time on Warrior Forum and not getting work done, ha ha.

    Same here, bought WSOs that I didn't take action on.

    Got discouraged and gave up on stuff.

    Not following through with every step on a method thus making it almost useless.

    Buying a $1000 coaching program and losing money on the methods rather than making money on them.

    etc. etc.

    I have made many mistakes, but very soon I am thinking of starting a warrior forum blog to tell all about my successes to encourage others.
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  • Profile picture of the author snakez0r
    My biggest mistake is being easily distracted from my IM projects and procrastinating on taking the big steps
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    • Profile picture of the author gotdmw
      Og Mandino... thats funny i thought that guy passed some years ago... i would say that is probably your biggest mistake thus far...
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  • Profile picture of the author Og Mandino
    Thanks guys for the ideas.

    *

    gotdmw

    Thanks for telling me. You're second guy asking my nickname. LOL.
    But uhm... Please look at my previous post first, why did I use Og Mandino as my nickname.

    Well, I'm wet now. So I'll stick to use it
    Because, it keeps remind me about very important thing.
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  • Profile picture of the author MichaelHiles
    My regular mistake is not producing products that are at a comprehension level of a much wider audience, and lower than my own. I always lose sight of the fact that I am not my customer, and while I might have an extremely high level of comprehension, I tend to deliver far too much information at too fast of a rate.

    The number one comment about my seminars, etc... "It's like drinking from a firehose."
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    • Profile picture of the author Og Mandino
      Originally Posted by MichaelHiles View Post

      My regular mistake is not producing products that are at a comprehension level of a much wider audience, and lower than my own. I always lose sight of the fact that I am not my customer, and while I might have an extremely high level of comprehension, I tend to deliver far too much information at too fast of a rate.

      The number one comment about my seminars, etc... "It's like drinking from a firehose."
      Yes. the metaphor make it more easy to understand.

      While others haven't enough doing... overdoing is also wouldn't get result as expected.

      Adapt according into situation, not less not more, just precise.
      Such an art
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      • Profile picture of the author JeffMitchell
        I am by far going to stay spreading myself toooo thin. When you buy product after product just to soak up the knowledge, you tent to start working on too many good ideas at once.

        NOt that is was not great for me too see a ton of strategies but Remember that you need to master 1 thing before you move onto the next thing...(rinse and repeat)

        Jeff Mitchell
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  • Great question!

    The biggest mistake I made was being too much of a generalist. If you're selling shoes, stick to shoes until you get it rolling.
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  • Profile picture of the author boaterscott
    just creating products I think are good, instead of using all of the research I've done to create products others want. I've been creating products for a few years and definitely have NOT broken even yet. I am finally starting to create the products that I should have started in the beginning - I learned a lot though...
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  • Profile picture of the author Lou Diamond
    Hello,
    I think I have made more mistakes in my life than Thomas Edison did when he invented
    the light bulb.

    Each mistake is getting me one step closer to finding out that I made another mistake.

    Seriously folks,just learn from each mistake and then move on to something that may work for you.
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    Something new soon.

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  • Profile picture of the author SantiSantana
    I made two identifiable mistakes the first time I took action.

    I bought a manual from Chriss Cobb and decided to be an affiliate as I thought it was a very good program ( I was certainly impressed to be honest).

    Seeing as I wasn´t fluent at all with adwords and web design I hired a small company to do a couple of things for me, namely a squeeze page, an adwords campaign and a bit of promotion for the website to direct traffic to it.

    The first mistake I made was not following the instructions on the manual to the letter. Chriss spoke about how with adwords you are testing things in real time and can and must make your changes quickly. The guy I hired kept telling me to allow a few days or even a week before evaluating results and making changes (as in keywords and ads). because I trusted him to be more knowledgeable than me I followed suit ignoring Chriss's advice of not letting any under performing ad roll for more than 48 hours, even 24 if there was some traffic getting into it. Those days (weeks) I trusted that guy wa smoney down the drain as with lower ctr the ad costs started going up.

    I also allowed him to take more time than necessary creating the squeeze page, which shouldn´t have taken as long as it did as i provided the graphics and text and he only had to add the form. He probably had more commitments and persuaded me to allow for adwords to work its magic before I did the squeeze page. Tons of wasted time because I couldn´t put his mind into the frame of following me ( my manuals instructions rather).

    Later on I started running the adwords campaign myself. It was bringing in the traffic but conversions were just 1%. problem being I had paid that guy and my campaign in sterling but was converting at dollars wich were pretty much 2 to the pound at the time, so I lost money.

    Lessons: Cost control, get your employee to do what you want him to do and not what he thinks is best.

    Later on I went into a second adwords campaign for the same course which I managed myself from the start. I was ranking only for Google searches, nothing to do with the content network. My cost per clic was rather reasonable as my ctr was up to 12% in some ads ( about 8% on average) and I was budgeting ok.

    Then I decided ( after reading on the interwebs) to allow my ads to show in the content network. Cost per click went up like mad as my CTR tanked big time.

    Lesson: If you don´t know how to use a feature, stay away from it until you learn or find a person with a succesful track record of using it.

    My .02
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  • Profile picture of the author DogScout
    only mistake I didn't make was not joining the war room
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  • Profile picture of the author H.Miller
    By biggest mistake by far is wasting alot of time and not being focused. Its so easy to get off track when you work from home.
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  • Profile picture of the author Diana Lane
    Spending loads of time on producing various projects in comparison to far too little time spent promoting them. It's something I'm still guilty of, but not to the extent that I used to be.
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  • Profile picture of the author Erik Ortega
    My first mistake when I started out was not putting enough emphasis on keyword research, I had such high hopes for that site and it flopped because I wasn't getting ANY traffic.

    Any newbies reading this take note, make sure you are 100% behind your keyword choice! If you question it at all, look for another one, there's millions out there anyways.
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    Be extremely subtle, even to the point of formlessness. Be extremely mysterious, even to the point of soundlessness. Thereby you can be the director of the opponent's fate.- Sun Tzu

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  • Profile picture of the author jedz
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    I think the first mistake so far is when I stopped posting here in warrior and prioritized other board.. I learned my lesson.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dr Dan
    I think it is fine to call yourself whatever you want, but might be a challenge when you decide to release a product and you have to say by your real name but I go by Og rtc on forums etc... Maybe just use Og something, or Og jr? Or a new pen name.
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    • Profile picture of the author Og Mandino
      Originally Posted by rockstarinlife View Post

      I think it is fine to call yourself whatever you want, but might be a challenge when you decide to release a product and you have to say by your real name but I go by Og rtc on forums etc... Maybe just use Og something, or Og jr? Or a new pen name.
      Yup.. I just sent Allen PM to change my user ID.
      Thanks for your kind advise.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sven Schoene
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    • Profile picture of the author Okane
      Focusing too much on "getting money" instead of "providing value".


      Marc
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  • Profile picture of the author grandstar
    The biggest mistake I am making now is not doing enough keyword research and also not having a good resource box.

    I may also need to brush up on my blogs.

    lol
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    • Profile picture of the author Ralf Skirr
      Good topic, it seems every business has to go through quite a few costly mistakes before you finally get it right.
      :-)

      Tony Robbins said (I'm paraphrasing):

      Good judgement is the result of experience.
      Experience is often the result of bad judgement.

      My biggest, low 6-figure, business failure:


      I once created a product with a six-figure development cost without testing the market first.

      We had one raving client before we started and thought all others would love it too.

      They didn't...


      My second biggest, low 5-figure, business failure:

      I sent out expensive (really expensive) mailings to prospects with deep pockets hoping to make big business. Same mistake: I didn't pre-qualify them before. Today I would pre-qualify with a post card mailing or a phone call.

      I got an awesome response rate of 3%!

      3% of the prospects were impressed enough to contact me to tell me they would NOT need my service.

      Ralf
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  • Profile picture of the author Sara Young
    I never make any mistakes...

    Just kidding!

    Made lots of mistakes. The only way to win is to fail fast.
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  • Profile picture of the author Kezz
    Thinking that writing content to pump as much traffic as possible past a nearby banner ad was the way to do affiliate marketing. Now I understand it's far better to write content that IS the advertisement. Placing the product (text & images, no banners) at the end of a pre-sell, or even just a generic lead in, or even just a somewhat related article, is far more effective.

    Thinking that buying .info domains instead of .com domains was saving me money, instead of that .com domains would make me money that .info domains wouldn't.

    When I started writing sales copy, I focused too much on describing the product, and now focus on describing the benefits.

    Okay, that's enough, I'll be here all night!
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