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Something You Will Want To Remember

Posted by admin | February 23, 2009 .

I have seen a lot of talking about people getting sidetracked and wasting time by reading forums and blogs about making money online. I want to emphasize that this is a very big time sink if you are not careful. But it is not the only time sink you must be wary of.

Typically you will see dozens to hundreds of wannabe gurus littering forum after forum, telling others how to be successful, and how they need to go about actually making money. Yet they all work day jobs, have never capped a number one spot for anything other than a fifty word long tail, and tout all the same bullshit pushed on you by the supposed gurus. Let me tell you right now, most of those clowns are dead broke. Ignore them, and take most blog and forum information you read as fluff.

As with many other things, if someone is making money, why would they share it? The obvious follow up would be: “Why then should I read this blog?”

Well to be honest, I am NOT going to tell you EVERYTHING. You absolutely MUST experiment and learn for yourself. But I can give you the same guidelines as everyone else. To be honest, these very guidelines are the same no matter where you read them. And I am NOT going to give you every secret. In fact I probably won’t divulge half of them. But they are not hard to figure out on your own if you are persistent and creative.

I will also use this blog to hawk a few affiliate products. Does that mean there won’t be useful posts? Of course there will be. Just don’t expect me to lie to you and claim I don’t want to make money with my blog. I do. But I can help and make money. Yes, it is possible to do both.

OK, rant finished. Yes you can find useful information on this blog. Like this post. So far I have given you the typical garbage about not wasting your time on forums and blogs. But there is another hazard that will eat up your time if you let it. Making money online is a social business and if you are like me, people will want to keep in touch. As it stands I am getting a couple dozen emails a day from people I work with, exchange links with, am now friends with, and more.

It has gotten to that point where I spend an hour each and every time I open my inbox, just in answering questions, working deals, or just plain bullshitting and being friendly. This has completely supplanted the time I spend reading forums and blogs.

Is this a bad thing? Of course not. But it needs to be checked just like reading about other’s methods. You can’t spend every waking day socializing or studying. You need to take action. Save your reading and socializing for after you have taken the action for the day. Get your work done first, then read or answer emails. Otherwise you will find yourself tired out and with no desire to get anything done. Then you stall out.

Take it from someone who is where you want to be. Take action first. Take action frequently. Your experience will outweigh nearly everything you will read online anyway. So start getting experienced! ;)

–korr

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  1. Rajaie AlKorani February 24, 2009

    Ahh, come on Korr, being friendly isn’t that bad ;)

    But seriously, you’ve got a point; reading about how to make money online won’t actually make you any money online. I’ve got to admit that I used to be (and still partially am) one of those people addicted to information, but I’m starting to get better at breaking the habbit.

    Speaking of which, here’s a related article by Mark over at TheKeywordAcademy.com - http://thekeywordacademy.com/want-to-make-money-online-break-your-information-addiction/

    Hehe, posts like this make me close up all those DigitalPoint tabs and get back to work! Dang, what am I wasting my time here for? :p

    -Rajaie

    P.S. I just love your writing style. (Just had to mention that for some reason.)

  2. admin February 24, 2009

    lol about once a week i look at all my open tabs and say ‘NO!’ to warrior, BHW, the shed, and a half dozen blogs. Now i have that second weekly check where I have to force my self away from gmail so i spend time with my fiancee :)
    thanks for the kind words and i’ll have to check out that post as soon as i finish my daily empire building ;)
    –korr

    PS - is that a penguin i spy? always glad to see other linux users!

  3. Rajaie AlKorani February 24, 2009

    Building your own empire as well, eh? Same here; Grizz has been getting to us! Enough commenting for today LOL, I should get back to work!

    P.S. I’m not a Linux user, I just like penguins :lol:

  4. Passive Income March 12, 2009

    Oh yo - guilty as charged :-) I have to balance freelance writing and site building. For a while i did the “right” thing and scheduled the paid for writing first thing, unfortunately I would procastinate for hours before I got it done - leaving not enough time for my own stuff!
    Now I schedule my money making activities FIRST - and the deadline driven writing happens - just before the deadline usually!
    I like your style with this blog - I’ll be back - but only on my “off time” LOL
    Lissie

  5. admin March 13, 2009

    thanks for the compliment!!

    we all NEED that priority. when it comes to our online lives, money comes first. for me, it’s family > money > social life > learning

    learning to balance them all is difficult at best

    i’ve seen you around the community and am glad to make your acquaintance :)
    –korr