What You Can Learn From Your Dog about Growing Your Online Incom

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Okay, you may be wondering what you can learn from your dog about growing your online income. There are two things actually.

# 1 Stop Sniffing Around So Much

This may sound corny, but many people who start an online business act like dogs circling around trying to find a place to pee. I told you it was corny. Allow me to explain. Have you ever seen a dog go pee? Be honest.

Alright, the dog will circle around and around, sniff, sniff, sniff, then circle around some more. All the while you’re thinking “just go already will ya!” It’s almost like your dog is looking for the perfect place to pee or something. When in reality, any place will do (except for the carpet).

Well, people starting their online businesses are similar. They hee-haw around and dilly dally wanting to start the business but they never do. It’s almost like they are looking for the PERFECT time to start the business or waiting for the PERFECT product to come around. Sometimes people are waiting for somebody to hand them an opportunity on a silver platter or something.
I see folks who have a truck load of talent, but never use it. Like a dog, they keep circling around to find the perfect spot or the perfect, whatever, when all they really need to do is just piss already!

Start by doing something, ANYTHING! Write an article and post it on a directory. Start a blog, join an affiliate network and promote products, write some Squidoo pages, design some Wordpress blog themes and sell them. Just do something.

There will never be a perfect time or place to start your online business so stop looking for it. And yes, when you start your first online adventure, odds are your product WILL SUCK. But so what? Just put something out there in the marketplace and begin. Like I said before in other posts, you need to take ACTION. Bad action is better than NO action in most cases.

# 2 Mark Your Territory

I told you there are 2 things you can learn from a dog about growing your online income. So here’s number 2.

Have you ever wondered why a dog sniffs before he urinates?

According to Answers.com (and countless dog training books and pet stores), they are marking their territory. They will either smell another dog's urine and urinate over that or, they will mark their own territory such as the backyard/front yard, etc.


I can totally hear what you’re saying. “Shane, what the hell. You’ve lost your mind and your post makes no freakin sense.

Let me explain. The dog is sniffing to see if he has any competition in the area. Almost like researching your niche. Face it; if you have NO competition then odds are there really won’t be any buyers for the product either. That’s not always the case, but most of the time it rings true.

Let’s say for example you’ve found a niche you would like to work in. But there is NOBODY advertising that niche on Google adwords, or Yahoo, or Bing. Well, odds are there probably won’t be many buyers either, if any at all.

Now let’s say you’ve found a niche you would like to work in and there IS some competition. You see Google ads and Yahoo ads and Bing ads. Well, like the dog, mark your territory! Who cares who’s dominating that niche. Frank Kern can’t own ALL the online marketing stuff can he?

The dog doesn’t worry about who the other dogs are that are pissing there, he’s just marking his territory. Period. And so should you.

In conclusion. Go out there and find your market and the hell with the competition. Take action and mark your territory, savvy?

Peace,

Shane

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  • Profile picture of the author Sara Young
    Good points. And a great example of using curiosity to get people to read your post!
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  • Profile picture of the author airbusbarkley
    It is always great to see people still have a sense of humor

    Great "lessons" even for those of us that don't actually have a dog.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMStudentforlife
    Interesting Analogy!

    What does it mean when my dog tears apart my news paper and soils it then?

    I do like this, I think the big thing to take away from it all is to quit wasting time, simplify, and just do it(no props to nike)!
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  • Profile picture of the author Kierkegaard
    There's got to be one about sniffing the bigger dog's butts
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    • Profile picture of the author abednego
      Originally Posted by Kierkegaard View Post

      There's got to be one about sniffing the bigger dog's butts
      Those are what we refer to as... ad swaps!
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  • Profile picture of the author CJ.Online
    Great post man! You officially sold me on clicking on your sig! lol!
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