Bad is better than nothing
Warriors, it's my birthday. Although I don't participate enough on these wonderful forums, I would still like you to give me a birthday present: move forward visibly on your business tonight, even if it's not perfect. And remember that doing something badly in internet markeing is way better than doing nothing.
Do something tonight. Fail at it if you must, but please take publicly visible action on one of your IM plans.
Still working on your squeeze page? Have you published it yet? It not, please do. If it's terrible, say so but ask forgiveness and get feedback on these forums.
Do you only have 1.5 of your autoresponder letters done? Please finish the second one and start on the third.
I'm rich. I have a house (well, several) and health insurance and two paid-for cars. Not as rich as I could be, and I assure you, not as rich as my wife would like. I've failed at more businesses than you've tried. I blew well over $1 million of my own money on a business last year. That was my life savings. Don't feel sorry for me. I have a reasonably healthy business for my day job and I plan to recover it through internet marketing in the next two years.
I tried, though.
Did you? Did you actually release your product or affilaite site yet? If so, kudos! You're learning!
My business seemed like a strong idea, I did the diligence, and it still went bust. I pulled the plug on November 1, 2008. By December 2008 I had entered the internet marketing world as a student. By the end of January I had a product plan underway. I'm working on it now. It's not done. In fact, it's late. But each day I move forward on it. I'm adding valuable content and working on the marketing plan. It won't be as good as I want, but it will be released April 1. I don't have $1 million to spend on it, so I've spend a couple grand on learning materials. I've started networking with some amazing people I've met on the site since December. We're doing some JV work. I'm mentoring one, and being mentored by another one. I met both people on the forum this year.
The more I learn, the more I learn how little I know about internet marketing. But here's one thing I love. It's science. With science, you come up with a hypothesis and test it. Every well-tested hypothesis in science yields useful knowledge, even it gets disproved. (At least you know what not to try next time.) With IM, it's the same thing. So I promise that my sales page will be a failure when my product debuts on April 1. So will my JV work, because I'm learning that even joint ventures are a whole subculture of their own that I don't understand properly. In both cases, though, the worst that will happen if they fail is that I'll get to try again, using my failure as a platform for the next experiment.
Please get something done tonight. Not started. I mean released for the world to judge you so you can fail quickly--and know what not to do for your next experiment.
Do something tonight. Fail at it if you must, but please take publicly visible action on one of your IM plans.
Still working on your squeeze page? Have you published it yet? It not, please do. If it's terrible, say so but ask forgiveness and get feedback on these forums.
Do you only have 1.5 of your autoresponder letters done? Please finish the second one and start on the third.
I'm rich. I have a house (well, several) and health insurance and two paid-for cars. Not as rich as I could be, and I assure you, not as rich as my wife would like. I've failed at more businesses than you've tried. I blew well over $1 million of my own money on a business last year. That was my life savings. Don't feel sorry for me. I have a reasonably healthy business for my day job and I plan to recover it through internet marketing in the next two years.
I tried, though.
Did you? Did you actually release your product or affilaite site yet? If so, kudos! You're learning!
My business seemed like a strong idea, I did the diligence, and it still went bust. I pulled the plug on November 1, 2008. By December 2008 I had entered the internet marketing world as a student. By the end of January I had a product plan underway. I'm working on it now. It's not done. In fact, it's late. But each day I move forward on it. I'm adding valuable content and working on the marketing plan. It won't be as good as I want, but it will be released April 1. I don't have $1 million to spend on it, so I've spend a couple grand on learning materials. I've started networking with some amazing people I've met on the site since December. We're doing some JV work. I'm mentoring one, and being mentored by another one. I met both people on the forum this year.
The more I learn, the more I learn how little I know about internet marketing. But here's one thing I love. It's science. With science, you come up with a hypothesis and test it. Every well-tested hypothesis in science yields useful knowledge, even it gets disproved. (At least you know what not to try next time.) With IM, it's the same thing. So I promise that my sales page will be a failure when my product debuts on April 1. So will my JV work, because I'm learning that even joint ventures are a whole subculture of their own that I don't understand properly. In both cases, though, the worst that will happen if they fail is that I'll get to try again, using my failure as a platform for the next experiment.
Please get something done tonight. Not started. I mean released for the world to judge you so you can fail quickly--and know what not to do for your next experiment.
"If you don't quit, you can't fail"
Success will follow.