Something You Will Want To Remember

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