Warning: You Might Be Doing This Mistake
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Mistake is something everyone does in their life. But if you know that it is a mistake what you are doing, you shouldn’t probably continue doing it. Many people who enter the web world to make money, do a mistake of not sticking long to anything they do. It is their eagerness to earn more money which is making them do the mistake.
Let me be clear and to the point. Many people are joining the ‘make money online’ world everyday. It takes a lot of time for them to find a way that works well. Few people go with blogging, few with article marketing, and some people go with internet marketing which involves building mailing list, building trust and selling products to the list.
Stick With What Works
The truth is that many people almost don’t find a way of making money online. If you have found a working way, you should call yourself a lucky person. But you are unlucky if your mind is shifting towards different things all the time. If you have decided to blog, stick with it for a long time. You cannot become a six figure earner in one month. Blog for at least 4-6 months before you decide it is not for you. Blogging will take time to earn you money. It took me 2 months to earn decent money from my blog. But I don’t earn anything from my blog now. I use it as a platform for promoting my freelance writing offers.
Learn About What You Are Doing
You should learn about anything that you are doing. If you are in the internet marketing field, buy a couple of ebooks written by the experts in the field. You can also learn a lot by observing. Join the mailing list of famous internet marketers and see how they build relationship with their subscribers and how they sell their products. If you are a blogger, subscribe to few blogs which have already had great success and try to learn that blogger’s way of marketing.
Never Try More Than One Thing
When you select something to do online, don’t star a new project unless you have mastered the first one. You won’t have time and concentration if you are starting two new things at a time. Start with one, master it and go for the second one.
Have you quit any project in less than one or two months just because it has not got good results? Did you put enough effort on that? Please share your views in the comments.
John Sullivan | May 3rd, 2008 at 10:25 am #
You guys mnetion Sticking what works well you should practice this on this blog and Have Kevin writing.This blog mau have alot of readers but that number may be getting STUCK or going negative Be careful I see alot of crappy almost corporate Blogs you heading that way.Nothing wrong with multi authored blogs but your loosing the personla touch and the stuff has to be worth reading DAMN
Ramkarthik (Post Author) | May 3rd, 2008 at 10:49 am #
John,
Thanks for your constructive feedback.
Firstly, stick with what work well means figure out something that is getting you good result and then try to master it. This doesn’t have anything to do with this blog. As you can see, this blog was started with very less authors but now you can see many bloggers. These bloggers are all experienced to some extent and know what they are writing about.
Most of the bloggers in this blog write from experience and with so many blogs on blogging and making money online, writing unique content every time is very tough. But as far as I know, most of the blog posts posted here are unique. You can also check everyone’s post by clicking on their names in the post. It will show you the posts they have written so far.
Kevin does write for this blog. Please do check the posts on this blog and you will see that Kevin has written around 7-8 posts this week alone. It averages to 1 post/day which most bloggers don’t achieve.
After all, everyone has their own point of view and I’m glad you said it out.
new zealand accommodation | May 3rd, 2008 at 2:33 pm #
This is some good advice! Too many bloggers are always looking for the latest way to make a bunch of money. If something is working for you, then stick with it.
XLOR | May 7th, 2008 at 12:02 pm #
Well, I’m a little bit tired of one of my project that I was preparing for 2 months. Yes, it is working now, yes i have got lot of work to do, I have got a few very constructional thoughts, I have got ideas for promoting - but I’m tired))).
I wanna start my blog but don’t wanna stop work on my project…And plus of all I’m working the whole day long - so it is absolutely not easy to do a lot of useful things for my projects. I just don’t have any time(((