When I was younger I used to love to read. Actually I still love to read, I just don’t seem to get the time to sit down with a good book these days.
Anything I do manage to read these days is about improving my knowledge, increasing my information, my no-how, my self-confidence, my mind set, basically about improving myself so that I will be successful in my chosen career (yes – online marketing can be a career J. Everything else has been just a job to me, this is the only thing I’ve ever thought of as a career) and so that I will be able to help others step-up and be successful. Even when very successful, I expect to keep reading these types of inspirational books.
So I started up this blog a while ago. The course I was taking did say to promote yourself, not your product/promotion/opportunity etc.
This makes perfect sense, there is only one of you, and possibly thousands of people promoting that product/promotion/opportunity etc.
After all there is only one of you – a lot less competition and people follow people, they don’t follow products etc.
So, promote yourself with a blog, they say. Great idea, write a blog, people read it, get to know you, follow along and (hopefully) eventually, when they trust you, buy something you have been promoting, or join you in your opportunity.
Problem is, how do you expect people to follow along when you are new to this yourself. How can you be the expert and teach others to succeed online when you are still learning, you haven’t succeeded yet? You haven’t even made a dime.
That posed a problem for me. I couldn’t “fake it till you make it” like some “experts” tell you to. I couldn’t pretend to have answers that I didn’t have. I couldn’t pretend to have the expertise and experience that I didn’t have.
(All of the above I am gaining on a daily basis)
So I have change the theme of my blog, from “how to profit online” to “my journey to being successful online”.
Basically every few days will post what I have learnt, with a summary at the end of the week. And believe me, I have learnt a great deal.
One problem I had was information overload.
Depending on the company you join you can have access to manuals, videos, mp3’s telling you how to do every sort of marketing/promoting possible, but its all made available at the same time. So if you know nothing about marketing you can waste weeks just trying to go through everything just so you know enough about each just so you are able to pick one to try.
Then while you are trying it you still have to study it, learn it and hope you improve so that you start showing a profit, because while you are trying all this, you are still paying good money to be member of this company each and every month.
That’s one reason why I chose affiliate marketing, no monthly fees J
Anyway, that’s the new theme of this blog, read it, don’t read it, it’s up to you. If you do follow along I certainly hope you get something from it, even if it’s just not making the same mistakes I did.
