What are you waiting for? Do you think that studying all those methods, secrets, and techniques is going to make you money? I have had to answer that question for myself again and again. Have you?
What is it that holds us back? Fear? I think fear of the unknown is what holds most of us back.
We are afraid that our website will not compare well against the thousands if not millions of websites and web pages floating in cyberspace. Well. Get over it!
We fear that our writing will be criticized by our readers. So what! Are you afraid of some unnamed critic without a face? Your high school teacher is not watching!
Newbies, unite! Why do so many newbies fail? There are many reasons. You get discouraged because you don’t make a sale in the first few weeks. You hear all the gurus telling you that you can or will make thousands of dollars, maybe hundreds of thousands, within days of using their secret formula. Most of those gurus have been at this for ten or more years. How long have you been at it?
Do you remember your first car? Unless you were born with a silver spoon in your mouth, it was probably a clunker. Were you proud of it? Did you take your girlfriend or boyfriend for ride? Did that old clunker get you from here to there? Were you afraid of what others would say about it? No. You were on the road. You had freedom. You were moving.
When did you upgrade to a newer hotter car? Probably after, you started making some money. What is the difference between your old clunker of a car and your clunker website? None. You have to start somewhere. The point is YOU have to start.
We fear that our readers will criticize our writing. Are you afraid someone is going to send you an “F” for poor composition or grammar? I do not mean to say that you should throw grammar or composition to the wind. I am saying that you can express yourself much more freely than when you were in school. Besides, that is what editors are for. (Note the “for” at the end of that last sentence. I think it is called a dangling preposition. I would get an “F” for that.)
I just received an email a few minutes ago from a fellow internet marketer, David Saeger (The Home Biz Guy) on the same subject! Here is what he said, “Ready, FIRE, then aim … This is the operating philosophy you MUST adopt to succeed with a home based business. That’s backwards for most people who like to aim before they fire.”
In Internet marketing, that is a good philosophy. You have to start. You have to move. The Internet changes daily. What you learn today, what works today, may not work tomorrow.
Most businesses struggle their first year before they see a profit not to mention the initial monetary investment to start the business. In internet marketing, you don’t have that concern.
Give it a year. If after that time, you still are not making money maybe you should reconsider. However, that assumes that you have really done something other than study and read about it.
Take action! Just do it!
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