Your worst mistake

Lack of focus.

I was definitely lacking focus, and trying too many things at one time.

Worst mistake #1: Trying to innovate too long and not seeing the value of modeling the success of others earlier.

Worst mistake #2: Hiding in product development instead of making offers.

Worst mistake #3: Thinking in ego terms like mistake/failure/success and not seeing every result from any action worth a test as something to learn from.

Trying to do everything on my own. Not finding help and mentors and not concentrating on what I do best and hiring experts to take care of the rest.

Your worst mistake
LOL...I think I just made it a little while ago.

I was sending my per-launch members an email telling what they need to do and in the process I left out one word. "NOT"

There was one line in the email that should have said,
" I'm not trying to be an ass about it...lol"

and instead it ended up going out saying this,
" I'm trying to be an ass about it...lol"

It didn't take long for one of the members to point it out to me!

FYI,
Have a Great Day!
Michael

Having the rich jerk ebook open on page 3 minimized while browsing new Porsche's on autotrader to "prepare".

Two for me, and probably the same 2 that will come up again and again from others!

1. Not building a list from the beginning!

2. Jumping onto every next thing that pops up!

GoGetta

My worst mistake - and I'm guessing a lot of people make this mistake - is to hop from idea to idea too often. It is so easy to ignore a great idea because you think another idea is better. Keep this up, and nothing ever takes off...

My worst, and most costly, mistake when I first started out was setting up a Google Adwords account and running it up to £4000.00 with very little return. OUCH. I was very fresh, I mean fresh.

Yes.

Haven't touched PPC since, funnily enough. Maybe I'll grow some stones someday and have another blast LMAO.

Russ.

Not keeping some good domains that would now be MINT!

Not collecting emails from day 1

Spending too much on Adwords without making enough....thought I knew what I was doing (without any training!) Yeah, I did NOT know what I was doing. Still learning!!

When I posted my first product WSO, the "buy now" button was broken for the first five hours before anyone told me.

Oh - wait - almost forgot... My real mistake was promoting someone else's product instead of mine.

Mistake #1: Taking actual advice from forums (no offense)

Seriously, if people took more advice from people who are
actually successful, instead of pretenders and wannabe's
who want to make you believe they know what they're
talking about...the world would be a better place, lo.

Mistake #2: Not being stubbron ENOUGH!

It's easy to be gullible in a situation where your not exp.

Sometimes, you have to put on a hard hat, and reject
offers you get to JV, partner, etc. Some would say you
could be turning people down who could one day be the
next bill gates...and there are ways to screen for those
people...but to take advice from anyone who says they
know what they're talking about.

That was my mistake.

Mistake #3: Focusing on making money, not building a
business.

Ironically, I make more money anyway when I focus on
building a business instead of a "one hit wonder" (i.e.
pretend to be a little girl on facebook for CPA sales, spamming
craigslist, spamming twitter, etc -- some of which are
actual products in the WSO).

Not focusing, and moving from one program to the next, trying to do everything at once.

Not sticking to ONE program and not taking enough action!

im very novice. Need to know ask questions from time to time.
no focus and don't have any confidence to try something..

Gee were do I begin! Got a week?

I'll try and condense it...

- NOT Sticking with 1 method/site/idea long enough
- Quitting my websites that made money but not as much as I wanted
- Trying to be unique instead of doing what already works
- Tried to get rich off 1 site
- Buying too many products, ebooks etc
- Not Testing
- Not having a real plan, just winging it....
- Building a list of freebie seekers and not having a real system with my list building
- Not wanting to do SEO
- Thinking I needed a fancy designed website to succeed
- Wasting too much time reading forums and not doing enough work in general

I think, I am sticking with the same method, have to learn more and just planning to move on. .

not asking advise from as many people as I could

Mistake Nr 1: Spent several thousand dollars on licenses for Dan Kennedy products that I quickly learned, after spending several more thousand dollars building a large all singing all dancing ecommerse website to sell said products, on that they were available on eBay (all over eBay) for below wholesale prices. (shaking head!)

Mistake Nr 2: Spending too much time and money on website development (for above products) and too little on where and how to get traffic. "Getting The Kart Ahead Of The Horse)

Mistake Nr 3: Spending too much on "How-To" IM products.

Mine were buying loads and loads of software that were marketed to be the magic bullet solution. Cost me thousands of dollars - in a way I am quite glad it happened as it made me more aware for the future.

I paid an "advertising" company $2k for 5000 unqualified leads and sent them to the 4 free pre-built websites that they gave me. This was supposed to be a "business in a box" but the kicker was those websites were nothing but single pages with a bunch of ad banners and NO content. I didn't sell a thing.

Letting my list of literally thousands go stale.

Still have it, but now it's effectively a cold call.

What do I do now?

If I met you, I'll opt you into my "new business contacts" list as you are handing me your business card right on my cell phone and with verbal approval mark you confirmed. Can you say lesson learned?

My first mistake was i was following a Guru's marketing advice and started answering questions at Yahoo answers. Most of my account were banned and i had to start all over again most of the time. I spend nearly two months with this marketing strategy with not even a single sale.What a waste....when i come to think of it.

not acting up on a good idea..... remember when i was in college i had an idea of a system for regular people to pay each other with credit card.... didn't go for it....one year later Paypal was out....

Trying to rely on FREE traffic instead of paying for traffic

There is no such thing as "FREE"... You either spend your time and effort or your money... It doesn't make sense anymore for me to trade time for money... the sooner you get into paid traffic, the faster you'll see results.

using an @yahoo email for domain registrations and paypal, yahoo sucks so much that words cant describe it.

I did not put too much focus on building backlinks..big no no to start with!

Thomas said it all... Got married

Then...Accepting advice on forums and blogs from people who only pretended to know what they were talking about. 99% of the WSO's today.

Dude..." I paid an "advertising" company $2k for 5000 unqualified leads and sent them to the 4 free pre-built websites that they gave me. This was supposed to be a "business in a box" but the kicker was those websites were nothing but single pages with a bunch of ad banners and NO content. I didn't sell a thing."

Let me guess you took advice from some pretenders and wannabe's who want to make you believe they know what they're talking about...

Richard

#1- Not doing enough research
#2- Signing up for offers that didn't offer a money back guarantee
#3- Wasting too much time on free marketing forums
#4- Buying crap that was otherwise given for free
#5- Not wanting to learn HTML

Pretty much ALL of the above !!

Didn't do enough list building.

Jamian.

To accidentally use someone else's affiliate code when selling a product to my self... Duh!