Thank you for your insightful comment. I am particularly impressed with your insight about “thinking as an employee”.
That is so very true. It is not in our best interests to approach IM in any other way than to treat it as a business, our business. It would be wise to have a business plan.

Carlos

My upbringing was very simple – go to school, get a good job (by good, it was meant a job that can support you), have a family and then… well, there really was no “then”. When it comes to finances, it was always about saving money + getting raises at your job. Working for yourself…that’s just too dangerous.

This is how the society, school, and even parents think, that’s how they are taught to think. And this thinking is the hardest for me to break free from. This thinking leads to procrastination. It leads to not believing in your own abilities. It leads to inability to manage your own time and work.

At your regular job, there’s always someone to tell you what has to be done; they tell you what hours you must work; they tell you if you need to work overtime – there’s always a clear direction already set for you. When you work for yourself, you have to manage this alone.

Basically, my biggest problem is to stop thinking like an employee, and wait for directions to be handed to me. I think that’s why newbies fall for every “blueprint” and “program” gurus throw at them. They still need someone to tell them what needs to be done.

I believe once you break free from this kind of thinking, you will truly become a businessman.

Thank you very much for your kind words. I guess I will always be a Newbie at heart. I understand the frustrations a new person experiences just starting out. Experienced IM’ers tend to forget that they too had the same problems and often let it go to their heads and try to take advantage of others.

Thank you,

Carlos

There are so many sharks circling the inexperienced marketer swimming around and searching the oceans of information on the net, just waiting to devour them with sharp cutting teeth!

So many of them are diligently seeking someone to help them find their way only to be taken in and in too many cases, financially devastated, and personally wounded. These type of so-called marketers give all the honest and well meaning marketers a bad name!

But your site here is honest, truthful and full of valuable information, a must for the marketer just starting out and the one at the just considering it stage! Thank you, we need to see more sites like this. I will personally recommend it!

By the way, you had me at “I am what is labeled as a newbie” in your post under the Getting Started Category. ; )

MissTerraK

To Your Success, As Well
Carlos

I like your site. I am subscribing to your rss

Success to you,
Dee

Your comments are well taken. Unfortunately, many lack the confidence to keep on keeping on. If we can help people understand what they need to do and have them do it, then we will all be better off. In other words, teach them how to fish and not hand them the fish.

Carlos