What Are Your Most Closely-Held Secrets for...

You can't fail if you don't try! So have that mindset and you will never have to worry about failing!

Spending too much time on here.

Content is relevant to how well a page ranks. SEO failure #1

Not focusing on well planned out authority sites from the beginning. SEO failure #2

Being a lone wolf and ignoring teamwork and building relationships. Business failure #1

Losing focus on a project before it is finished. Business failure #2

Not closely held failure secrets by any stretch of the imagination, but a problem I've had for the past 20 years or so I've been in business has been trying to provide value to my customers.

What??? You think I'm kidding don't you. I'm not.

In the process of helping them, I was not tracking the value I was providing. As such, I underpriced almost everything that was being sold.

The first time I did a major price increase (on the order of about 40% or so), I lost several customers ... for a week or so. In hindsight, I should have raised prices closer to 80%.

It gave new meaning to the concept of over delivering .

Marvin

My #1 secret for failure...

=> Taking Massive Action

I enjoy failing.

IMO, the "secrets" to failure is to dismiss any methods you are adopting as not workable immediately when you do not see results only after a short while.

My secret of failure is when i:
- Browse offer to next offer trying to find those magic button.
- Frustrated when everything not come as the way I expect it.
- Feeling sorry for myself when certain methods fail...
- Stuck in this forum. Not setting deadline on what I do.

Here is my recipe for "Failure", here are some 5 ingredients at the top of my head:

1) Quitting when the going gets rough.
2) Procrastinate all the time
3) Not Educating Myself Enough in IM
4) Lying
5) Watching TV

Take care,

Bernard St-Pierre
Marketing Consultant
Copywriter/Teacher

Listening to the little voice inside my head that says "I can't do that".

I'm now looking at everything where my initial reaction is to say "I can't" and instead at least make an attempt.

I've tried this on a few things - and it's actually quite a buzz when you discover that you can

Here's one...






You will fail every single time if you...






Do nothing.

Here's some sure-fire ways to become a failure at anything,
including Internet Marketing...

1. Trying to be like someone else

You'll never succeed on a massive scale if you try to copy
someone else. The world needs YOU to be yourself and not
another Rich Jerk knock-off or pale imitation of someone
else.

You'll enjoy more success when you speak from your
heart and say exactly what you think.

2. Doing things that most people do

(Hint: Most people are abject failures - so don't do what
most people do otherwise you'll end up having similarly poor
results).

To get uncommon results you need to do uncommon things.

3. Trying to please everybody

Trying to please everyone is a sure-fire way to fail because
no matter what you do - someone will always find fault.

No one ever succeeded by taking a middle-of-the-road and
comfortable approach.

It's much better to take a firm stance - even one that's
unpopular with some - because you'll then find people who
resonate with your approach.

By the way, there's a distinction on failure that I find useful.

Bad Failure...

You can fail by using a poor strategy that's dooms you to
fail from the outset. That's one type of failure and is bad
because it's preventable.

Good Failure...

You can fail - no matter how great your strategy is and
sometime things just don't work out as expected. This
type of failure is GOOD because it will eventually lead
to success if you try again or modify your approach.

I remember the line from Thomas Watson, the founder
of IBM when he was asked about failure and success.
He said...

"To double your success, double your failure rate."

To succeed, you gotta have the courage to fail intelligently.

The biggest failures are those who are not prepared to
even try something to succeed.

Dedicated to mutual success,

Shaun

My short but critical list:

1. Taking what my family says about "how I should do something" as relevant.
2. Wasting time on the Warrior Forum. (Implemented a router rule last week to start fixing this issue, scheduling my allowed time on the forum. Will add additional scheduled sites if necessary.)
3. Changing directions when results do not show up in my pre-defined time period. (Why can't it happen in two days? Or one week? Or 10 days?)
4. Finishing what I start. I have so many 3/4 finished projects they could fill my office.
5. Believing I need to know ALL of the steps before I take the FIRST step.

I need to keep going back to the basics and reviewing this list on a regular basis to get myself back on track. My own mental "excuses" created by that group of reasons are responsible for many lost opportunities.

concentrate, don't spend time with 'timewasters' and social networks such as fb and twitter. Post on them and send messages/reply but dont chat as you can be there for hours

I think trying to create the perfect product (guilty) before launching and promoting it does not help.

What a great, informative, helpful, relevant thread.


NOT!!!!!

90% Learning 10% Action
Lack of deadlines & Urgency

Mine would have to be...

BEING SLOW TO ACT.

Now that I am doing things for myself and making a point of
getting projects and ideas into action quickly my income has
increased to the point of me making AT LEAST 6 times what I
made last year.

Really quite incredible!

Mary

As with many on here procrastination is my biggest killer. I vow that next year I will not procrastinate anymore.

Oh another: running PPC campaigns with limited knowledge I learned a ton from the $100's lost

Bill, my weak point is inaction and procrastination, usually induced by over analysis - too much analysis, and far too little action as a result of that!

I used to think indecision was one reason... now I'm not so sure.

Sorry, someone had to say it.

Getting obsessed with "systems" and therefore focusing on a single method rather than a broad, well-developed strategy.

Not failing 'fast enough'. If you know what I mean.

Maddi

If it has not been said already, the secret about failure is this:

It is inevitable, we will all have failures. That is how we learn. That's life. We keep going. Learn and improve. Rinse, repeat.

Good question.

My main secret is my work schedule. Many 16 hour work days in the last 7 years.

Outside of that, I would have to say that using the Ultra Edit program do manipulate content is me most powerful tool though.

Yep - just and editing program - who would have though after all these years.