Try all you like, blind effort does NOT = Success.

Nick,

Great point!

I think that you do have to "take action."

But it has to be "educated action."

You can't learn strictly from info, (ebooks, courses, videos, audios, etc.)

Eventually you have to get up and start flying.

The knowledge will help you get to the open window.

But you're sure to hit some "glass" along the way that you don't immediately realize is glass.

And getting around it and finding the next open window is the key.

But you'll never know what "glass" you'll run into without attempting to fly to your goal in the first place.

It's a balancing act.

You need good info, the ability to start flying, and the awareness to realize when you've hit some "glass" and the willingness to compensate, adjust. And maybe hit the "books" again.

-Sean

This post must have been written for me.

I work very hard. I take action, educated action. It's been looong months since I've started but I still struggle to make a few dollars a day!

I've realized what I'm doing wrong lately. My copy & content sucks!

I've articles, blogs, sites, etc with attractive designs but the content & copy sucks. I always outsource my content needs (since I'm not a native english speaker) for cheap and now I realize that the quality of the content is the most important thing online.

When I consider giving-up, magically I see a sale in my CB account very soon. As if the God is telling me "don't give up!". Then I get motivated and keep working harder...Blindly!

I've many technical skills to create beautiful websites and create killer scripts etc but the lack of copywriting skills is killing my efforts!

Pls don't tell me offer web design services software development services. I won't do that! People want to get my top quality services for peanuts only for I live in a east european country.

"Success is simply a matter of luck... Ask any failure." - Anonomous

I´m starting to find out that to be successful is like fishing. You have to do everything RIGHT to catch a lot of fish. Sure everybody is going to catch a fish now and then, but it takes a hunter to catch lots of fish all the time. And if the Hunter can´t catch fish, then the fish cannot be caught and that is life.

I think with any adventure, you try things for a while, learn your lessons and then expand upon your knowledge or redirect efforts where you notice things working and then FINALLY stop doing the things that don´t work.

I think one major problem is that people aren´t really trained to navigate the world based on logic. They more live by tradition and belief that there are POWERS THAT BE who are actually in control, so it would be futile to try to change things up.

There is this idea about knowledge that there is a certain WAY to do things. It is kind of like the idea that everything has a NAME. You ask the question, "What is that?" and someone gives you an answer, "That is a polar bear." And you think you KNOW what that thing is now. You say, "That´s a polar bear." But the thing you see is NOT a polar bear, it is something you know nothing about and you will only understand WHAT it is after watching it and learning what it does etc.

So, in any persuit there is a tendency to go out and identify the rules for proceeding. In actuality, if you were able to look at the problem and KNOW your objective, you could form a solution based on your own reasoning. But it is difficult to look out at the world and to see it as it is. If you can´t see it as it is, then it is much more difficult to solve problems.