My Two *BIGGEST* Problems... And Maybe Yours Too?

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Hey Warriors,

In the past few months I have been thinking a lot about when I first started IM, and I realized what my two "biggest" problems were when it came to being as efficient as possible in the IM world (and all of the world too I guess haha)...

I decided to post it in an effort to save from of you guys too :-D

1) Jumping From One Project To The Next... Over And Over!

By far, one of my biggest problems, especially in IM, has been that I would jump from one project to the next project to the next project over and over again... I am sure that you can all think of times that you have done this...

Maybe you try Adsense, and then try promoting affiliate products via Adwords, then Squidoo, then offline marketing, and so on and so on...

This is what most people new to IM fall into... I SURE did fall into this when I first started ahah... Don't!

Or maybe you start one website, then start another one, then another, then another... without ever finishing (and launching) the first one... (I still sometimes fall into this catagory...)

Sure, in the end you WILL launch all of the websites, but it will take much longer, and because of that it will cost you a lot when you get to your bottom line... Trust me, I learned this the hard way early on

2) Thinking Too Much About Your Current Project!

This might be as bad, if not worse, than the first problem... I had this problem BAD.

I would have a website that was literally completely ready to launch... Everything was ready... EVERYTHING.

But then, instead of launching I would say "But wait! What if I do this!" Oops, time to wait two more weeks before launching!

Two weeks turned to a month, and so on... and by then the flame was starting to go away.

Some times you just have to jump, and trust that it will all work out. You'll notice (as I did) that the best launches, whether it is you or not, are ones that are just that... LAUNCHES!

Do NOT fall into the dreaded "Ready... Aim... Aim... Aim... Aim..." cycle in which you NEVER fire!

Just a quick thought at 5:30 AM over here

I need to go to sleep ahah
#biggest #problems
  • Profile picture of the author lcombs
    Good post.
    you're very right.

    Like they say...

    "You don't have to get it right, just get it going."

    LC
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    • Profile picture of the author Jason Fenty
      When I first got involved in IM I was switching projects/websites nearly every few days. If i had had developed all the sites I wanted to I would have a more expansive portfolio of websites. Instead of a few very very solid ones and a bunch of half done ones.
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  • Profile picture of the author Charles E. White
    Originally Posted by MouseandMice View Post


    1) Jumping From One Project To The Next... Over And Over!
    When I was starting out I did the exact same thing, just went from one thing to the next to the next to the next. A friend of mine named Willie Crawford finally told me to quit jumping around all over the place and stay focused. That was some of the best advice I ever received.



    You're 18 huh? Hell, I think I was 18 once. Seems like you got a good head on your shoulders....congratulations!
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    • Profile picture of the author John Taylor
      Originally Posted by Charles E. White View Post

      You're 18 huh? Hell, I think I was 18 once.
      Just once?

      I've been 18 three times now.

      I don't have time to focus, I've got way too
      many projects to handle!

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    • Profile picture of the author MouseandMice
      Originally Posted by Charles E. White View Post

      When I was starting out I did the exact same thing, just went from one thing to the next to the next to the next. A friend of mine named Willie Crawford finally told me to quit jumping around all over the place and stay focused. That was some of the best advice I ever received.



      You're 18 huh? Hell, I think I was 18 once. Seems like you got a good head on your shoulders....congratulations!
      Same here! I was told to stop being a fox and start being a hedgehog: The fox tries everything to get the hedgehog and is almost never successful... The hedgehog does just one thing: rolls into a ball, and always is successful!

      Hehe, thank you! I AM 18
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  • Profile picture of the author callmestrip
    Stick to one project all the way through... even if it fails. The lessons you learn from failure in IM are very benfish.

    If you have yet to try outsourcing, def. do it.
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  • Profile picture of the author callmestrip
    And I just noticed you are a senior member and I didn't read your whole post.

    So disregard my "already heard" advice
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