Internet Marketing: Is it Better To Learn Slow Or Fail Fast To Succeed?

I vote for trying things out and failing as quickly as possible. I have learned the best lessons from failing. Because of my failures I have actually learned how to succeed...

I'm actually a little bit of both.

I start off with the intent of failing fast because quite honestly no amount of planning is going to stop the inevitable pitfalls you're going to nosedive into along the way.

Once I get a few failures out of the way, the smoke begins to clear and I see what I REALLY need to be focusing on. So I use fast failures as a way to gain clarity and then I can plan a more concise strategy from there.

Sometimes when you do too much planning up front you're wasting a lot of time working on the wrong stuff. To me, only real life experience will make the path clear to you.

Good point. I made some long posts in a private forum I help out about that, and overcoming procrastination. Success in anything comes by practice, and you may not necessarily fail when you try something, but learn what you could have done and what you should do the next time around -- and each time working on something specific, you improve.

My main failure to date with internet marketing or what would be more appropriately addressed as the reason for my "lack of success" was due to not allowing myself to fail -- or make mistakes. No matter what many IM Launch nuts say about they help you prevent mistakes, the truth is you'll only become good at something when you actively work at it consistently or in other words... practice. As the saying goes "practice makes perfect"... NOT "reading more makes perfect".

I'm not saying not to read, for I do research on stuff to make sure I can prevent major mistakes when doing things, and because I'm in the top percentile for analytical reasoning, I have to be able to wrap my brain around something somewhat. Not everyone is the same, but it is important to break things down and once you've learned a bit, move on and execute. Then, if you don't know the next step, do some research, then take that next step.

People shouldn't try to be learning it all before they get started, for like everything else, you will never progress that way.

Some people are wondering why they have information overload, and main reason is that they do not apply what they learn, and are learning about x,y,z traffic method and do not know how to do proper niche research, or are not concentrating solely on what they need to know next.

The half cracked IM courses with tons of holes in them, and reading a bunch of promotional emails, and sales pages about methods people don't need NOW adds to the confusion people have.

People should focus on learning one thing, then applying it, then learn from mistakes, then master it -- before moving on to learning anything else. But, I like I said everyone is different, so some people may need less details to get started, but it is crucial to not go to far ahead of yourself and apply each little step learned, before moving forward.