What Would YOU Do In This Scenario?

Firstly, I could write 500 pages on what I have learnt, and what I would do different. I started out on my internet-marketing journey in Sydney, Balmain on New Year's Eve 2009. For months now, I had been planning design of a sports betting application, and had 20 GBs of research, and a 200-page planning document, but no website.

However, that New Year's Eve night, over few-to-many, a mate already pursing IM gave me an idea to create a website. So come January 1st 2010 I had registered my first domain name for internet marketing. It failed. However, a year later come February 2011, I finally started having the elusive $100 days, and even $300 days, so I quit work, and for 3 months now I have been a full-time IM, and still $100 days, and my online assets are growing.

When I first started I was a perfectionist, I invested too much time into learning, and doing stupid things. So, now that you know the short version to my IM success, what would I do different, lots, but the standout things I would change are:

• Shed my dreaming (just-learn/talk) habits much earlier, and become a doer.
• I knew the core concepts to start my IM a week-in, but my perfectionist side got the better of me, and I spent months learning theory and taking no action. If I could go back, I would keep in mind, the light-switch theory that goes something like 'you don't need to know everything about electricity to flick a light switch.' I would take action much sooner.
• I also would have gone part-time at work, and focused on IM. You should only go part-time, or quit work, if you have the financially stability to survive without a job, or on part-time wages.
• I would have started a foot-in-the-door, affiliate site at the very start. As affiliate sites, that have some SEO, and/or lots of content, tend start earning you $30 a day before long, and when that hits $100, you can say goodbye to your day job, and swear your head-off at your previous ungrateful employer and tell him you quit.
• I would program-my-mind to not be a perfectionist, and just do. If I find myself going down the path of perfectionism, I would say to myself just one-word, "versioning", this word reminds me that I can always make it better later, version 2, 3, 4 can be the one that gives me that insane-crazy-person-unrealistic-feeling of its perfect. P.S. I have never heard "versioning" used in this way before, it's my own idea, and it truly works, try saying "versioning" to yourself as it's a great word to steer you back to being a doer.
• I would have invested in a whiteboard to start-with. I use to get overwhelmed every day, up until about a month ago when I purchased a white-board. I had so many websites, tasks, and ideas that every day I was waking up with a feeling of dread. Everything I had to do kept floating around in my brain, stressing me out. However, when I got that whiteboard, I put everything on it. For example, under headings I would put everything I had to do, such as for x website I put every task I have planned for that bad boy, I added my financial state to the whiteboard, a section for urgent tasks, etc.

In summary, if I could go back in time knowing what I know now, I would change so much, but the core three things related to IM would be, 1. get a white board to remove the stress, 2. stop just-learning and learn on the run, 3. become a doer.