Look in the Mirror. Are YOU an Extremist? THEN STOP!! (dammit)

Disclaimer
This is a hard hitting, look at yourself and don't lie to yourself, smack you upside the back of your head, stop ya bitchin', don't respond by bitchin', I love you and hope this helps a lotta people post. So, if you don't meet the "lack of ego height requirement"; just keep it movin'.

OK; all that being understood...

I have this client; (names will be withheld to protect the ignorant.. err, innocent); who can't seem to get out of the "what do YOU think?" syndrome.

What is the "what do YOU think?" syndrome; (some of you might ask)? Well, its when you don't have enough of your own self determination to say to self, THIS is a good thing and will be successful... and you ask everyone you come in contact with what they think about your project before you've launched it.

I've been there and I'm sure a lot of people have been there, too. Fact of the matter is, you can not get stuck there or you'll either never get to lauching the project OR by the time you've implemented all the various "changes for the better" that are suggested to you by those individuals, it will be something totally different than what you originally started out for it to be.

Side Note:
Something turning out to be something totally different than what you originally started out to create can be a good thing; yet, there's a lotta times it can be a pretty bad thing too. For myself, 8x out of 10 its been a bad thing.

Bottom line is, if YOU don't have enough GUTS to put your foot down and believe in what it is you're doing (the way you're doing it), then how in the HELL do you expect to convince prospects to gain that confidence in your product or service enough to purchase it from you? Especially in THIS economy; (yeah, I added the catch phrase.. but its true).

The title of this post is about being an extremist and the above mentality of this client of mine is one of the deadliest extremist mind sets I've encountered in my 10+ years in Internet Marketing.

Another is getting hung up on aesthetics. Lord have mercy on those that will tweak every pixel to the point of total morph. I mean C'MON MAN! How many different shades of orange do you honestly think the average human color recognition spectrum is going to respond to? Orange is orange!! dammit!! lol.. sheesh

If you spent as much energy perfecting your sales process as you did/do on getting the font right, you'd simply will your way to mega bucks! Seriously.

We're not even going to get into "copy"; oooo... that big connundrum that has more people frozen in their own footsteps; its crazy. No matter how many times I've suggested to someone, "just TALK TO the prospect".. I still see more people literally sleeping with their thesaurus under their pillow hoping for osmosis. (OK, so maybe that's a bit of an exageration... but, C'MON MAN!)

OH OH, then there is the OTHER end of the extremist's rope where dude grabs a boatload of PLR articles and thinks he just tricked Shamrocka the hip hop leprachaun out of his gold, throws them in an autoposter for a WP blog (as is) and then sits baffled as to why they're not in Google yet. (dumb ass!)

THINK! Don't OVER/UNDER think.
DO! Don't OVER/UNDER do.
WORK! Don't OVER/UNDER work.
READ! Don't OVER/UNDER read.
PERFORM! Don't OVER/UNDER perform.

You get the jist.

Bottom line is, you can't win the race.. hell, you can't even come in 17th place in the race if you ain't IN the race (and moving).

Now, if does NOT specifically and/or personally apply to you OR it does and you're just in denial; PLEASE don't respond with some bullsh** response telling me I'm arrogant or need to get off my high horse or whatever else you might come up with. If you don't have anything positive to add to the thread, just refrain from posting, (and if you can't refrain from puttin' your foot in your mouth... hey, sole power to you).

Hopefully, this will help "somebody"...
PLP,
tecHead