Spoon Fed or Self Fed?

by Simmeon

Posted: 12 years ago 18 replies

INTERNET MARKETING

Everyone will have unique opinions on this, but..

Are you the type of person that likes to try different things and experiment on your own?

OR

Are you the type of person that just likes to try things other people have told you to do?

Internet Marketing Related.

Personally I like to try things other arent doing, it enables you to sometimes gain the edge. Your thoughts?

#fed #spoon

Alexa Smith Banned 12 years ago

Originally Posted by Simmeon

Are you the type of person that likes to try different things and experiment on your own?

Yes, I am.

Originally Posted by Simmeon

OR Are you the type of person that just likes to try things other people have told you to do?

Sometimes I like to do that, too, but only after arriving at a pretty confident judgment of who they are, what their experience is, and whether their information/advice is really likely to be reliable and helpful to me. So I'm predominantly self-fed, but also willing to be spoon-fed, only if I really trust the caterer.
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funkynassau 12 years ago

I'd rather do things on my own, think outside the box. Sometimes I need a bit of help tho.
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TheArticlePros 12 years ago

When it comes to money, my thoughts are pretty simple:

If others are doing it and making money, why re-invent the wheel myself?

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- FrankWellington 12 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by JaRyCu
  
  When it comes to money, my thoughts are pretty simple:
  
  If others are doing it and making money, why re-invent the wheel myself?
  
  -- j
  
  Excellent point, JaRyCu!
  
  Also, what if you're able to take what another is doing
  and spin it; thus, creating a viral frenzy that produces
  crazy mullah?
  
  It's been said that there's nothing new under the sun.
  
  That simply tells us that if we take a good idea or parts
  of one, and make a better "mousetrap", we cut in half the
  idea, production, and bringing-it-to-market time
  considerably.
  
  Ask yourself...
  
  Did Steven Jobs create the camera? Did he create
  a sound/voice/microphone mechanism? Did he create
  the battery? Did he create SMS messaging?
  
  Of course not... However, he was able to take
  components that other geniuses created and was able
  to produce the greatest technological masterpiece
  the world has ever seen.
  
  Everyday, you have geniuses selling/sharing/giving/throwing
  their goods away. I call them watermelons. Go watermelon
  hunting so you can eat as much watermelon as possible...
  Create your masterpiece, and don't forget to spit out the seeds.
  
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  Frank
  
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Joseph Robinson Banned 12 years ago

Its a healthy mix for anyone building a long term business. The fundamentals haven't changed, and there is nothing to suggest that they will any time soon. With that in mind, we are all kind of spoon fed these fundamentals in one way or another. You see it every day in this section.

That being said, you need to be self fed (creating your own spin on things and your own strategy) to build a foundation and thrive in business.

They're not mutually exclusive (and shouldn't be) is what I'm trying to say.
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isumtakashi 12 years ago

I like both. I listen to clever people and notice their ideas I like and then try and experiment by them. If it works for me, I make it my own. If not, I try another one until I have some that work for me.
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- honestim 12 years ago
  
  I have a mix of both in my internet marketing business. Continuous experimentation is absolutely necessary to be on top of the game but there is so much one can do with limited time and budget. That is where leveraging on ideas, experiments and conclusions of others can come in handy. Why reinvent the wheel?
  
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MattBrighton 12 years ago

I like to get a bit of information first then learn the rest my self. Especially with IM and the online world, the way you get started is by being spoon fed abit of information, various WSO's etc, but then the rest is really up to you - I just fiddled about with what I preferred doing and found what works for me
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Simmeon 12 years ago

It seem we all need a little bit of this after all.
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pigface 12 years ago

Doing things that others have established while adding your own flare so to speak, what works now may not work well later on .
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Ronno99 12 years ago

Or
3) Are you the type that posts inane polls on im message boards rather than doing any real work

Ok that's harsh. But seriously, what do you plan on doing with the responses to your question?
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Ewan Lumsden Banned 12 years ago

I like to adapt methods. I'll see what people are making money with, then change it to my liking.
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- MissTerraK 12 years ago
  
  Well, I guess my IM life mirrors my offline life.
  
  What I mean is like all of us, I started out spoon fed as I didn't know how to feed myself, but as soon as I learned how, I took off with it, added my particular tastes to the recipe and now feed myself.
  
  However, I'm not so pompous to believe that I have every recipe needed for healthy living and from time to time love to have someone spoon feed me something new every once in awhile. We all need our tastebuds stimulated every now again, wouldn't you agree?
  
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  robestrong 12 years ago
  
  I like the idea of being spoon-fed in IM, but from personal experience, whenever I have been successful it has happened when I was just working on something that I enjoyed working on, and then just happened to make me a good amount of money.
  
  Systems and course for the most part don't seem super helpful for me. I prefer to get a bunch of ideas and wait for something to rises to the surface.
  
  Obviously everyone's different, but that's what it's like for me.
  
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webcosmo 12 years ago

Life is short. No point of reinventing the wheel.
Take ideas others developed, make it better with own style.
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Hatentrepreneur

12 years ago

The problem with being spoon fed is that it makes it easy - and if it's easy for you it's just as easy for every other knucklehead out there. If you want to make real money you have to bring something new to the table. Not necessarily a new business idea, but a new technique, a new marketing angle, a new gimmick.

My feeling is that if you are reading it off some bodies blog or 5 dollar ebook, it's probably already been beaten to death.

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TheArticlePros

12 years ago

Originally Posted by FrankWellington

Excellent point, JaRyCu!

Finally! I got shredded in another post earlier today..was beginning to doubt myself.

Also, what if you're able to take what another is doing
and spin it; thus, creating a viral frenzy that produces
crazy mullah?

This is exactly what I am doing. It just took 3 months of reading the WF and it's various sub-forums (yes noobs, there is more than just this sub-forum on this site!!) to coalesce a master plan. I didn't even have to buy a WSO to get it done, but you can bet I'm gonna make a few out of it.

Everyday, you have geniuses selling/sharing/giving/throwing
their goods away. I call them watermelons. Go watermelon
hunting so you can eat as much watermelon as possible...
Create your masterpiece, and don't forget to spit out the seeds.

I'm a Southern boy. We take our watermelons seriously. I could use one right now, too.

-- j

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FrankWellington 12 years ago

Originally Posted by JaRyCu

I'm a Southern boy. We take our watermelons seriously. I could use one right now, too.

-- j

LOL! Me as well!
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