St Paul's Second Letter to the Internet Marketers

Some years ago I posted an article in Ezine Articles with the above title. Yesterday I got my performances statistics from EZA, and of the 91 articles I have published, that's by far the one that has got the most views.

If nothing else, it shows one thing - you must have an interesting title for your articles and posts to get read . But apart from that, the message the article said is still the same, so here's the first bfew paragraphs of it:

"I read the first lesson in church today. It was Paul's second letter to the Corinthians, Chapter 8, starting from verse 1. As I was reading verses 11 and 12, I almost stopped, and had to collect myself to continue reading.

To save you trying to find a Bible, verse 10 says "I want to suggest that you finish what you started to do a year ago", and verse 11 is even better - it says "Let your enthusiastic idea at the start be equalled by your realistic action now".

The reason I nearly stopped reading is because these words really struck home to me as an internet marketer, and I suspect it would have struck a chord with you too.

Have we not all been guilty of enthusiastically downloading the latest magic formula for online riches? We probably only bought what we did because of the "$15000 worth of bonuses" which were offered along with the product.

Now we have hard drives cluttered up with stuff we have never opened, and sometimes stuff we have actually paid money for, and yet still have never used.

What went wrong? Did we get too busy with other things, thinking we would get around to using that marvellous money making scheme later? The trouble is, later never comes, as we get distracted by another hundred emails, each of which promises so much, but which will just as inevitably deliver so little, and off we go again, looking for the next big thing.

Have a look on your hard drive. I'll bet you've got stuff that you can't recognize from the file name, can't remember where you got it from, or why you ever downloaded it."

Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/367842

What reminded me of this article, was the text in church today, from James 2 v.17
"v. 17 Thus also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead."

Translation for us (and most definitely me!) is:

"Thus also learning by itself, if it does not lead to action, is dead."

I have learned so much from this forum and from other services that I consider myself quite literate in IM matters, but the problem is that I haven't put any of this learning to any practical use.

So, take action, publish an ebook, start your list, put up a WSO - take action!

Here endeth the lesson for today!