I want to give back a little

I remember when I first started IM. To this day I haven't given back much because I have felt I really have nothing to offer. I ask a lot more questions than I answer for others. This is again because I have yet to see myself as successful.

However I have earned enough through IM to quit a full time job and live off of the internet for the last few years. Of course there have been some bumps along the way but I am holding on and adapting.

That is what I want to talk about today. The need to press on and adapt. I have a friend that wanted to get into the IM world and I agreed to show him a few things that I wish I had known. He started out great with a good domain name and content. BUT he didn't see any income above a few dollars in the first few days. So he gave up.

I believe this is what happens to a lot of would be IMers. They start out with dreams of hitting it big right out of the gate and get discouraged when they find out it takes time and work.

When I look back on my journey I feel the need to stress to people how long it took before I found what worked. I spent 3 years with no income from IM before I started seeing anything. This was because it takes time to learn what works and what doesn't. You can not expect to make it big day one.

So to re-stress my point I want to encourage people not to give up. The ability to press on through failure is how all great men succeed.