Be Prepared To Say “I Was Wrong”
Marketing a business online is the last place that you want to get ‘set in your ways’. I don’t care if you’re a young buck or an ‘old dog’ – you have to be able to learn new tricks!
In fact you have to be prepared to be continually learning in all areas of your life, period! As Jim Rohn often said, learning is the beginning of health. Learning is the beginning of wealth!
The Internet is a big moving target. Development of new applications, services and techniques is ongoing at a blistering pace. Don’t let that scare you though – once you have learned the basics you will take all of the changes and developments in your stride.
My advice is to use an RSS reader and find a good forum. I’m mostly interested in blogging and personal development, so at the moment I subscribe to three blogs. Here are the RSS feeds:
Pro Blogger
Shoe Money
Darren Hardy
If you’ve never seen an RSS news reader, it’s a bit like an email program but it collects the latest stories from your favourite blogs each day. The RSS reader I use is free and one of the best, in my opinion – and that’s Windows Live Mail. You don’t have to use it for email if you are using something else (I use Thunderbird) but it’s an excellent RSS newsreader and it’s free.
I also frequent a handful of forums. Here’s my list of favourite forums:
TL2I/Robs Networkers – This is the official forum for TrafficLeads2Income.com. TL2I provides list building training, including a complete step by step squeeze page creator. I provide most of the programming for this site.
Work From Home – This is an excellent forum that I just stumbled on recently. Plenty of good advice and very active. The Work From Home forum covers the full range of marketing topics such as affiliate marketing, traffic, video marketing, copywriting and SEO and also has an excellent ‘Mindset’ forum.
The Warrior Forum – probably the busiest of the internet marketing forums.
There you have it – all the my secret places 
So what does all of that have to do with saying ‘I Was Wrong’. I guess what I’m getting at is that you have to be prepared to change what you are doing if it isn’t working for you. Therein lies a problem though. I usually say ‘go at it with a do or die attitude’ which kind of conflicts with the idea of moving on because something isn’t working. You have to weigh it all up though. It may be that it’s not working because you just aren’t passionate about the things that you are doing.
I got all excited a while back about automated blogging and lists of backlinks. I really couldn’t put a whole lot of effort into that though, because at the end of the day I felt that if I created backlinks from high PR sites then that was kind of cheating. This blog right here started as an automatic blog – gathering items form several sources, but again I wasn’t really comfortable with that.
So, rather than getting stressed or frustrated I simply said ‘I was wrong’ and I moved on. Nowadays this blog is 100% ‘me’ and I can assure you that nothing about me is automated .
Auto blogs are junk in my opinion, always have been.. it is just more people littering the internet with worthless recycled crap. I guess it does fit in somewhere though for example: if I was searching for a topic and found what I was looking for but not from where it originated from then I guess it can attribute to helping the inforamtion get around to people. I think if people just take the time to create original material it is much more rewarding and the money will come as long as you are dedicated. Lazy people don’t really make money.. I guess there might be some stories like that out there but for the most part we need to be proactive about working from home to succeed.