Are you an information hoarder? Make your call to action today
Online marketing, as any other activity you want to excel in requires two things to be aligned and be in sync - your mind, and your action. Action without having your mind set on the goal is, well, a mindless action. A gamble. But when is the right time for action may be more difficult to determine than it seems. To analyze your own mind, your own readiness can be quite a subjective task because it requires to be completely honest with yourself. And one of the biggest question you need to answer to yourself is - is my knowledge sufficient for me to put it into work?
Lot of jobs require enormous amount of knowledge to even be allowed to get a license. Others require a few hour training and you are all set. Online marketing is somewhere in between. One thing that makes it fairly complex is the constantly changing online environment which requires constantly updating your knowledge and adopting new ways of thinking and doing things. And this makes a lot of people uneasy, feeling, they need to learn more before they jump into action.
This is a dangerous situation and leads to a lot of wasted opportunities, not to mention time. Reading forums, buying books, attending seminars - it all builds a knowledge but it will never make you ready. You have to make yourself ready. You don't need to read every article about affiliate marketing, lead generation, article marketing, SEO, Wordpress...... read enough to get you started and then START! The key is to start small and grow as your knowledge and experience grows. If you want to know how to make million dollars in online marketing, you will never make it. All you need to know is how to make $100 and go from there. Don't try to accumulate enough knowledge that can fill dozens of books while your online efforts equal to zero. You have to start your online marketing efforts as soon as you know just enough.
You will probably make mistakes without even knowing you are making them. But guess what - you will make mistakes no matter how much you know. Live and learn. But the chances are, that if you spent months and years studying all available techniques and tricks, your mistakes would cost you even more because after all those months you will feel, that you are ready for big money. Simple put - you start early and small, your mistakes will cost you less. And you will have more time to fix them.
There's so much information available, that it is easy to be overwhelmed to the point of second guessing what you already know. You have to fight the temptation to learn everything while doing nothing. Just put to work what you already know. Stop waiting for the right time. The right time is now. After all, time is money and in online marketing, this is a tested truth. So make this truth your starting point. Today.
Lot of jobs require enormous amount of knowledge to even be allowed to get a license. Others require a few hour training and you are all set. Online marketing is somewhere in between. One thing that makes it fairly complex is the constantly changing online environment which requires constantly updating your knowledge and adopting new ways of thinking and doing things. And this makes a lot of people uneasy, feeling, they need to learn more before they jump into action.
This is a dangerous situation and leads to a lot of wasted opportunities, not to mention time. Reading forums, buying books, attending seminars - it all builds a knowledge but it will never make you ready. You have to make yourself ready. You don't need to read every article about affiliate marketing, lead generation, article marketing, SEO, Wordpress...... read enough to get you started and then START! The key is to start small and grow as your knowledge and experience grows. If you want to know how to make million dollars in online marketing, you will never make it. All you need to know is how to make $100 and go from there. Don't try to accumulate enough knowledge that can fill dozens of books while your online efforts equal to zero. You have to start your online marketing efforts as soon as you know just enough.
You will probably make mistakes without even knowing you are making them. But guess what - you will make mistakes no matter how much you know. Live and learn. But the chances are, that if you spent months and years studying all available techniques and tricks, your mistakes would cost you even more because after all those months you will feel, that you are ready for big money. Simple put - you start early and small, your mistakes will cost you less. And you will have more time to fix them.
There's so much information available, that it is easy to be overwhelmed to the point of second guessing what you already know. You have to fight the temptation to learn everything while doing nothing. Just put to work what you already know. Stop waiting for the right time. The right time is now. After all, time is money and in online marketing, this is a tested truth. So make this truth your starting point. Today.
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