Why Too Many Novices Fail At Internet Marketing
My college days were a couple of decades quite a few years ago. But I still recall my first days as a college freshman as if it had been no more than just a few months ago.
My family and I traded one very last hug, then off they went, leaving me with bags to unpack and a roommate to figure out how to coexist with. I felt an a little bit like an orphan — and then it dawned on me that I WAS an orphan. My parents had not passed on literally, but in the societal sense.
It was no longer my mother and father’s “duty” to ensure that my bedtime was early enough so that I was able to make the school bus the following morning. No one would force me to keep my room in order. Nobody would be there to stop me from carousing with my classmates even though I had a big exam coming up. No one would be there to gather and wash my clothes when it became dirty. No one would ensure that I’d finished my homework.
Now I was in charge of that kind of stuff.
As a committed online marketer, I realize that I’m a college freshman all over again. I have had to take over the function of being my own boss just as surely as I had to take over the task of being my own dad and mom three decades ago. No one is here to tell me I can’t take more than an hour for lunch or what deadlines I need to fulfill. And most important of all, no one is going to to hand me a steady paycheck.
If you’re serious about learning respectable online marketing, I give you fair warning that lack of personal discipline will be your most treacherous adversary – nearly all of us just are too used to obeying someone else’s instructions and performing someone else’s processes. The mass of information available about how to succeed, mostly the noisy, flimsy claims of self-appointed “gurus,” is just plain scary, making it almost inevitable that you’ll get confused, sidetracked — and defeated.
I found the way to counter the self-discipline problem by going back to college, in a way. I became with a Web-based marketing community that offers training, tools, and most important, help with staying focused, self-motivated, and organized. They are Wealthy Affiliate University, and they now offer something to help the “incoming freshmen”: an orientation program that’s FREE! Here’s how to enroll:
The MAD Marketing Method (for “Motivated, Action-Taking, And Dedicated”), is a free online court that will take you through the entire Web marketing process step by step at http://wealthyaffiliateprep.com. And if you’d like to know more about Wealthy Affiliate University, go to http://wealthyaffiliateprep.com/wealthy-affiliate-review .
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