Crying You A River Of Info

**DISCLAIMER** The following information is based on my own
experience and is in no way to be taken as fact, gospel or anything
other than what has worked for me. In other words, proceed at your
own risk.

1. Don't Be A Wall Flower.

Did you listen to Veges Vince's radio show last night? The man wears his
manhood on his chest. If he had any more personality you'd have to scrape
it off the ceiling.

You're never going to get anywhere in this business if you're a wallflower.
You need to have some kind of personality.

Whether it's Kevin Riley's hamsters running amok in Osaka or Bev Clement
doing her Sherlock Holmes shtick and busting every living scam artist
that's ever graced these halls.

For crying out loud...do something to make yourself noticed.

Otherwise you're going to find yourself crawling into a McDonalds begging
for an application to flip burgers.

2. Stop Crying About Not Making Money

Nobody cares. We've all got our own problems. If you're having problems
with your business, don't complain about it...just fix it.

Don't know how? Get a proven mentor with a track record to help you.
Offer to clean his dishes if you have to if you can't afford to pay him.
There are plenty of guys who are looking for assistants. This can be your
chance to work for somebody and learn something.

Make sure you have something to bring to the table for these folks.
They're not going to hire you just because you have a pretty face. Unless
of course it's Vince. He'll hire anything in a skirt that looks good. But you
fellows better have more to bring to the table than that. So look over
your list of skills and see what you can do that has some value.

And then make sure you're actually learning while you're doing.

If you can afford to pay for the mentoring, even better.

If you can't afford mentoring and have no skills to offer, then ask some
people who know what some good material would be to begin learning
from. Everybody is going to have their own opinion on this, so consider
the source. Look to those who are most trusted.

Is it a perfect solution? No, nothing is.

But doing what you're doing and getting nowhere doing it is certainly not
the answer.

Less complaining and more doing.

3. Work On Honing Your Skills

If I couldn't write, I'd be at that McDonald's right now. I know a lot of
people say that you don't need skills to make it in this business. Just
outsource everything. Well, if you're living in a chicken shack with just
enough money to scrape together for peanut butter and jelly sandwiches,
outsourcing may not be at the top of your list of things readily available
to you.

And no, not everybody has the collateral to take out a loan or friends
that are willing to give them money.

Sometimes, we are just on our own left to our own devices and that's all
there is to it. So you make do with what you have.

By learning a skill, which can be done at zero cost, you give yourself a
tool that is invaluable to earning a living online.

Think about it.

Any of these skills can be used to go into freelancing and making money
without having to sell a darn thing.

Article Writing
Copywriting
Web Design
Graphic Design
Programming

And there's lots more.

Learn something...anything. Work as hard as you can to master it. No, it's
not easy. Nobody said it was.

It all comes down to how bad you want it.

4. Discipline Yourself...Get Serious

You're either running a business or you have a hobby. You want a hobby?
Fine. Just don't expect a business income. Again, from my personal
experience, I haven't found that you can just throw up a site, work an
hour a day and have the whole world banging down your door begging
you to take their money.

Are there exceptions? I am sure there are. There are exceptions to
everything. I hear it everyday about people who work 1 hour a day and
make millions.

I just wonder how long it took them to get to that point and if they didn't,
at least at the start, put in some very long hours OR have a very large
bankroll to get a large business going fast.

Anyway, you need to treat your business like a business. That means
regular work hours, even if you're working a full time job and can only
put in 2 hours a night. Fine, put in those 2 hours. Get into a routine.

Because if you don't, you'll end up getting lazy and ultimately you're going
to let your business crumble. I've seen it happen to people way too many
times.

Anyway, that's it. 4 things I think are important. Like I said, they are not
gospel or fact. They are just my opinion from 6 years of doing this stuff.

Before I finish, TKO suggested that I include my pearls of wisdom without
signature links. So I am therefore leaving my sig off of this thread.

I am now going into the recording studio to work on my next tune. I'm not
working today.

I've earned it.

For the rest of you, I hope this thread has been of some inspiration or
at least something positive in your day.