Joshua

If you are at all like me, then you know some of the pains that are possible when trying to start your own small business.  Everything, I mean EVERYTHING seems to stand in the way of your success at one time or another.

There is one thing that all successful infopreneurs and small business owners have in common. It’s one thing that you MUST master before you can get from where you are now to where you want to be.

…but we will get to that in a minute.

Here are some things that keep entrepreneurs from reaching their goals:

• Relatives or loved 0nes that think you are chasing a pipe dream.
• Lack of sales or lack of customers.
• Naysayers in your product or industry niche that think what you are trying to accomplish can’t be done.
• Not being able to get started.
• Your goal will be HARD to accomplish.
• Not willing to make certain sacrifices to achieve what you really want.
• Getting STUCK on a certain part of your business development.

The list goes on and on.  However, there is one thing that will keep  you going during these really hard times and one thing that will allow you to get anything that you really want.

That thing is PERSISTENCE.

Persistence is the almost-magical trait that all successful entrepreneurs and small business owners have in common. It is the one thing that keeps pushing you forward when it looks like your idea won’t work in the short-while.

Failure and roadblocks can’t hold a candle to persistence, once the user has mastered it.

Sure, you might have a whole bunch of ideas that turn out to be complete failures, but persistence keeps you going to find the ONE idea that brings you success.

Sure, your original business plan may have NOTHING do with the route that you end up taking, but it’s persistence that grabs you by the hand and keeps pulling until you find the route that you were meant to follow.

You see, money and ideas like speed. Money and ideas only seem to stick with people that are willing to go to great lengths to deserve the outcome that these things can bring. It’s like a rite of passage that each entrepreneur needs to go through, a real test of willpower.

Here are a few tips that can help you develop your persistence:

1. When you hit a roadblock or huge setback, welcome it. This might sound a little crazy but think of it as the price of admission for success. If you have not yet hit your roadblock, then you are not pushing yourself enough.

2. When you feel like giving up, know that this has happened to EVERY successful person in history. This is the time when you are being tested for how serious you are about your idea. If you can slowly push through the setback then your persistence is showing through.

3. If you feel like your idea just won’t work and you want to give up, look inside. Is this inforpreneurial idea something that you are REALLY passionate about, or something that just seemed like a cool idea. You have to eat, sleep, and breathe this thing is you really want to be a rock star with your idea. Maybe it’s a sign that you need to take a different direction instead of giving up.

4. Fight no matter what. When a person that is close to you does not believe in you it can be very hard. This is the time to keep going. This is the time to fight for your success. When your product or service seems to be a dismal failure, even though you KNOW deep inside that it will work, this is the time to fight.

5. Develop a sense of humor about the whole thing. Remember that you are not going to die if you have a few setbacks. Remember that you MUST go through this to get to the other side. Remember that if you can see the humor in the situation, no matter how dark it can get, you can help pull yourself out of the hole.

6. Remember that you don’t have to do it alone. Network with other like-minded people. Swap ideas. Swap failure stories and explain how you coped with each situation. We are ALL going through it, so you might as well band together and punch through to the other side.

Persistence is the key. It is the one thing that you can do to make sure that you will succeed no matter what the universe decides to throw at your small business.

What are some things that you have encountered when trying to develop your own infopreneurial business? What did you encounter that was a true test of your persistence, between making it and throwing in the towel?

I’d love to hear about it.

-Joshua Black

Joshua Black is the creator of the Underdog Millionaire Blog. Having started over a dozen small businesses of his own in the last 15 years, he is small business consultant, copywriter, information marketer and permanent student of small business.  He is also the creator of the Ultimate Information Product Report.  You can also sign up for the daily Underdog Millionaire small business Tip Sheet and not only will you get a wealth of small business, marketing, and sales information, but you will also receive 5 FREE success books (including Napoleon Hill’s Think and Grow Rich). Click here to sign up.

Kiesha

Just this passed weekend, I was watching Beetle Juice for probably like the 50th time since its release in 1988.  Yet, this last time I watched it with new eyes, more mature eyes perhaps, and it really got me thinking – not about death, but about opportunity.

There’s a part in the movie when in order to get the help they needed, the recently deceased couple had to take a piece of chalk and draw a door. It seemed stupid to them, how could something like this work? The deceased woman really doubted – to the point where she really didn’t even want to bother, but her husband had just enough hope to try it anyway.

He drew the door, knocked three times, and it opened…

Most people are like the woman, they think they’ve got things so figured out that they can’t even bother with even attempting the impossible.  How many opportunities are missed because of this attitude?

Are you so convinced by impossibilities that you aren’t even willing to challenge things?  Would you have taken a chance and drew the door or would you have just continued to wallow in misery instead of taking action?  What’s the worse that could happen?

The door might not open, you might say.  But so what! You’d still be no worse off than before.

But what if it does work?  Oh the possibilities!

Believe it or not, many opportunities are just waiting for you – if only you’d take action and stop waiting for things to start “looking possible.”

What if Edison waited for it to “look possible” to create a light bulb?  He failed many times before finally getting it right – what if he simply settled for “it’s not gonna work”?  Where would we all be?  Still burning down our homes with over-tuned candles and kerosene lamps?

You are already have all the keys you need, so pick up that chalk, draw your own door of opportunity, then pick up your keys and open it!

Your Gifts and Talents -

these are the keys of special abilities that only you can do. If you don’t make use of your talents, no one else can.  That also means if you don’t do it, you’re cheating the world of the wonderful contributions that only you can make.

Your Knowledge -

this is the key of what you know – you have a wealth of knowledge that you’ve been collecting since you were born. Put it to use, you’d be surprised to discover that there are people who lack areas that you have.

Your Skills -

these are the keys of what you know how to do as a result of your experience. Combine these with your gifts/talents and knowledge and you’ve got a dangerous weapon against the impossible.

Your Personality -

the key of uniqueness.  Rely on this to help you stand out from the crowd.

Your Heart -

the key of passion and interest.  Let these guide your actions and you’ll never feel like you’re working.

Your Foot -

this is the master key.  Sometimes you have to just kick the door in and stop waiting for others to open it for you!

So there you have it! Don’t just wish in one hand and poo in the other to see what you’ll get first – make a plan and start working at creating your own opportunity.  It’s not as impossible as you think.

Can you remember a time when you had a chance to pick up the chalk and draw a door, but instead allowed doubt to cheat you of your opportunity?  Are you regretting it yet?  What are you going to do about it?

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Kiesha is the author of We Blog Better and Christian Blog: Highly Favored. She’s a technical Writer, former writing instructor, and blogging consultant for small business owners. If you’d like to know more, read her extended bio. Connect with her on Twitter, Google and subscribe to her newsletter for blogging tips & tricks.

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I’m not a religious nut about to start talking about some doomsday cult or how we’ve been given extra hours to worship the Lord of Zog. This post is all about learning to manage your time better, and prove you have got more than enough time to build a successful site, I’ll break it down;

• TV

Watching the newest episode of FlashForward, or catching up on your hidden pleasure soap opera, will destroy your development. Think about it right now, If you spend any amount of time watching TV that you could be working on your site then you need your head seeing too. Think about it, if you get in from work at 6 and have something to eat, maybe put the kids to bed, talk to your partner about the day you’ve had, its going to be about 8pm. So what are you doing for the next few hours?… If the answer makes you feel guilty, stop it right now.  Get your site done first, do that new post, update that new page and promote the hell out of it!

• Surfing Net

Browsing Ebay for the newest digital camera, Searching YouTube for the sneezing panda, or updating your iPod and before you know it you’ve wasted an hour, that you could have been spent cracking the first chapter of your eBook, By all means escape from it all, but get a grip of your aimless surfing, and make a success of yourself.

• Do it today, tomorrow will never happen

This is an age old saying but it is so relevant. Why are you waiting till tomorrow, There is no reason for it. Get it done today then you can get even more done tomorrow, and the things you can get done tomorrow, do them now, no one said having a successful website is easy, Its not easy, and takes a huge amount of dedication and passion, but the battle is won if you don’t keep putting it off and get it sorted right now!

• Aimless Social

By all means check your email, comment on the latest picture of your friend on facebook, but either do this on your lunch break on your phone, or get it all done in ten minutes, I’m being serious here, set a timer for ten minutes and get all your social eLife (I like that term, I should TM it!) done and dusted in that time and that time only. You need to spend time on social networks but for the purpose of promoting your website, not to catch up on the gossip.

• Day dreaming

I put this in here, because I dream a lot, but I recently found myself thinking what the hell am I doing? Why am I dreaming about my plans, and not implementing them. That said day dreaming can be a good thing to do, but do it in the car, start talking out loud pretending its a year in the future and how successful your site has become, talk about how many visitors you get, how your changing peoples lives, how much money your making a month and more importantly how your spending that money. Positive thinking is the key to success.

• To do list

Write it down! At work make an ‘To Do List’ , or do it in the morning with things you need to do today, and tick them off as you go, for instance; 1; Reply to all tweets and emails (Website related), 2; Write new post, 3; Promote post on social media, 4; Work on future plans for site – Get it in written order of what to do, and tick it off when you have done it. Having a written list makes it harder to ignore.

This post will hopefully outline the importance of good content, This site is new, and while I am not new to running websites, I’m relatively new to this style of site. To take you back to the first sentence of this post, importance of good content is everything, but by reading this it will hopefully illustrate that absolutely anyone can make it online, no matter how crowded you think the market place is, let me explain;

My first post was on the 26th October 2009, and for the first 4 days I got between 37-91 hits a day, which for a site with zero paid advertising and new to the market is quite respectable. My aim at this point was to build quality content and a loyal fan base, over the course of a year, and at the end of that year I wanted to be in the top 10% of all websites, effectively ranked higher than 1,000,000 by Alexa.

Now this is were I start to get quite excited so please stick with me, on the 31st of October my hits went up to 169, fantastic I thought, great progress, I’m going to beat that tomorrow, and I did, 266 and so on, My best day so far was 828 on the 6th of November. OK but so what, you know sites that are doing 100,000 hits a day ! So do I but this site is mine, its 14 days old, and people are coming to read what I write and that’s exciting stuff!

So where do I rank at the moment? Well Alexa.com has me at

• 3 Month Average; 1,373,169 (Bear in mind the site is at the time of writing 14 days old)
• 1 Month Average; 608,749 (My Goal for next year was top 1Million)
• 7 Day Average; 199,030

Just look at my 7 day average, If I continue to grow the traffic I am at the rate I am, The site will be amongst the top 2%  in the world!

What Contributed to this;

• Social Media

DIGG, Twitter, FriendFeed, FaceBook – Everytime I publish a new post, I share it immediately, and the post receives instant hits

• Valuable Content

I write about things I want to talk about, just take a lot at the other posts I’ve done, Warning, Don’t Use Auto Tweets , Top 20 Most Influential Blogs and others are things I’m passionate about, and want other people to be too, and lucky for me, you are, majority of my posts have great comments, and have been re-tweeted, which leads me onto the next bullet point.

• Re-Tweets

Re-tweets by your readers can transform your site’s traffic ranking, for example I can re-tweet a link, and it will probably be clicked by around 30-50 people depending on the title, but get it re-tweeted by someone who has tens of thousands of followers and your talking serious traffic and unique visitors!

So, where am I going with this post… Again I wanted to talk about it so here it is, but that said if your starting out with your own site, or just having a slump in traffic, or just remember your traffic when you first started out, then hopefully this post will serve its purpose of motivation and inspiration, to look at your traffic and become scarily obsessed with it, so obsessed you have to beat yesterdays traffic, you have to produce content that your readers need and want more of.

I treat it like a snowball, build on your momentum and keep building, your trying to create an avalanche with your traffic, so that it becomes an unstoppable force of nature.

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Ok as most of you will know, I have done my top 5 most influential blogs, and a top 5 most influential women which were a big success recieving a lot of interest and great comments both on here and Twitter, But don’t be fooled into thinking that this will be both post’s adding together in the same order with 10 more, I’ve thrown in some surprises here, so from 20 down to 1 TheInfoPreneur’s most influential blogs are;

20; Micheal Dunlop – Launched his first profitable website when he was just 16, and now at 20 years old, he has become a hot ticket and one to watch in the world of blogging and social marketing. Running several websites, His IncomeDiary.com is how I came to know Micheal, fantastic relevant information and a huge inspiration for young adults in a world where opportunities don’t always reach the ones that need it the most. I fully recommend a visit to his sites.

Alexa Ranking; 17,549

19; Hugh Macleod -  A cartoonist from Texas, his site GapingVoid.com is one of those sites, that I visit when I want to relax and feel like a kid again. I remember doing doodles in Maths and English (probably why I left school with no qualifications) but its a way of escaping, and Hugh does this for a living and is more than willing to talk about his art, having a top selling book in Amazon about how to be creative, Hugh is one guy that I would to spend a day in his shoes, to see how he views the world, fantastic blog, massive personality;

Alexa Ranking; 38,010

19; Arianna Huffington – For those who missed the Top 5 Most Influential Women InfoPreneurs Here’s the write up; Co-Founder of HuffingtonPost.com Arianna is a house hold name. Her site focuses on politics, but has a breaking news part to it, which makes it an all in one really. Earnings have not been disclosed but are thought to be comfortably into 7 figures a year. Made number 12 in the Forbes list of most influential women in media.

Alexa Ranking; 248

18; Robb Sutton – An incredible nice guy and serious blogger, making 6 figures from his various sites. RobbSutton.com is a great site and to quote is ‘laid back blogging for serious entrepreneurs‘. A stack of information including a 118 page eBook, and Robb has a great following and prides himself as the king of reviewing products. A very well deserved position in this list.

Alexa Ranking; 73,864

17; Chris Garrett – A blogging authority, I’m virtually camped out at his site ChrisG.com to learn new ways of building reader loyalty and improving the value of my site. Probably most famous for co-writing the ProBlogger book with Darren Rowse (also in this list) A keen photographer, and free lance writer, this guy is golden!

Alexa Ranking; 39,890

16; Lorelle VanFossen – For those who missed the Top 5 Most Influential Women InfoPreneurs Public speaker (WordCamp), InfoPreneur, and keen genealogist, She talks about wordpress, Social media and has also written a book called Blogging Tips; What bloggers wont tell you. Her site still running of the free service from wordpress.com is a hub for anyone who is new to being an InfoPreneur/blogging or if you simply have writers block! A fantastic site, which has clearly given her the life she loves.

Alexa Ranking; 13,449

15; Pete Cashmore – For those who missed TheInfoPreneurs top 5 Most Influential Blogs Pete started the site Mashable.com in July 2005, Working flat out on it for a year, he then got his first advertising deal for the site. And it never slowed down, top 25 forbes web celebs, top 10 with technorati and at the time of writing has 1.6 million followers on Twitter. What I love about his story, is he had a passion for the internet, a desire to tell people about social media, and he worked tirelessly and it paid off BIG TIME, no official figures, but he is rumoured to be worth millions with a 7 figure turnover.

Alexa Ranking; 452

14; John Chow – In April 1999 he started a technology site called The TechZone which became a huge success with over 200,000 page views a day, he now shares his experiences and helps you reach the same success with JohnChow.com ‘Ramblings of a dot com mogul’ An absolute must, get to this site and start reading!
Alexa Ranking; 5,985

13; Darren Rowse -  For those who missed TheInfoPreneurs top 5 Most Influential Blogs , Darren Rowse – These days a top list can’t be published without including the original Problogger. Problogger was the first blog about making money from blogging I read, and it opened up a can of worms in my head, I couldn’t stop reading it and the more I read the more I realised how much of a success he has made and the most interesting thing for me is its not his top performing site in terms of revenue! He has several other sites, and has just launched Problogger.com A paid membership forum with over 3,000 members. This guy is an amazingly nice person with a perfect attitude to everything. Its a shame he lives in Australia otherwise I would be camped out on his doorstep with my laptop and a notepad and pen!

Alexa Ranking; 2,449

12; Daniel Scocco – His site DailyBlogTips.com was nominated in 2007 for ‘Best Web Development Blog’  publishing a lot of  ‘how to’ articles his site is so useful when you get stuck or don’t know how to take it to the next level offering a free eBook on making money from your blog, is another great addition to the site. Great advice from an honest site.

Alexa Ranking; 6,445

11; Michelle Malkin – Top 5 Most Influential Women InfoPreneurs Another political InfoPreneur turned author. HotAir.com Focusing on breaking news within the American political society, she has turned a simple passion into an unbelievable career, in which she has 4 books, Contributes to the Fox news channel, and has several columns. Michelle’s site has brought Vlogging (Video Blogging) to the fore front of media. Earnings thought to be high six figures to low seven figures annually.

Alexa Ranking; 4,670

10; Tim Ferriss – Probably the blogger I connect with the most, his site FourHourWorkWeek.com is an off the wall character who sole purpose is to live life. Offering advice on how to break the mould, and author of the book, named after the site, Tim really is an inspiration, if he can do it, so can we!

Alexa Ranking; 7,765

9; Yaro Starak – For those who missed TheInfoPreneurs top 5 Most Influential Blogs So whats he about? Entrepreneurs-Journey.com Ultra laid back approach to it all, but that will be down to the fact he is the king of monetizing. He runs BlogMastermind and a host of other money spinners, but unlike most, he actually gives fantastic information and a hell of a lot of free information, which is why he makes so much money, because, and rightly so, readers then want more to enhance their sites. Great bloke, great site, and massively motivational. I want to be like him…. Except without the curly hair, No offense Yaro!

Alexa Ranking; 9,347

8; Lisa Irby – Top 5 Most Influential Women InfoPreneurs Started 2CreateAWebsite.com in February 2002 with the sole purpose to help people set up websites and blogs. What I love about Lisa is she openly admits she’s not a HTML coder, she is honest about being happy with a clean simple design for her website,  which is something I connected with straight away. This site is a must whether your a newbie or not, some excellent advice on making money, real money from your site. Top work Lisa

Alexa Ranking; 11,267

7; Seth Godin – Seth’s site is a great read and talk’s about a lot of different subjects on a clean no fuss template. Author of 12 books focusing on making you a better marketer, he really is an Authority in this market place. Be ready to sit down and read though, its not one of those sites you can skim and get the general point, but it is 100% worth the read!

Alexa Ranking; 6,164

6; Leo Babauta – ZenHabits.net Is a site you need everynow and again to clear your head and return to your roots. Simplicity and focus is what Leo delivers to make sure your productivity goes through the roof. A real family guy who clearly loves life and that comes across in the way he writes. You could almost have angels stroking your neck as your reading through his posts. Great work Leo

Alexa Ranking; 9,426

5; Darren  Scott  Monroe – This guy showed me the importance of Twitter. With over 58,000 followers, and over 21,000 tweets he is a shining example of how social media should be used  to drive traffic and followers to his site DarrenMonroe.com. His site is all about social media, the net, and loads of advice on just about anything you need. Seriously motivating, and one hell of a nice guy!

Alexa Ranking; 97,537

4; Heather B Armstrong – Top 5 Most Influential Women InfoPreneurs Started Dooce.com back in February 2001 with a post about carnation milk, now 5,100 post later, it has become a force to reckon with. I could spend all day reading her site, You could just imagine sitting on a really deep couch in her house listening to her go off at tangents then seamlessly drift back on topic. Heather writes about everything, I mean everything, from a post about being in bed with a guy who sounded like Elmo to family which includes a Husband, 2 daughters and 2 dogs, the revenue earned from ads means they can all enjoy the chaos together! Heather is the most Influential Woman InfoPreneur because she took everything what had happened to her and wrote about it, with no other goal in mind except to tell the world what she was thinking! Fantastic.

Alexa Ranking; 12,307

3; Heidi Swanson – Heidi’s site 101CookBooks.com is the perfect example of passion. Heidi talks about the food that intersects her life, food she stumbles across, recipes passed to her by friends or ones she somes up with. Based in San Francisco, Heidi is also a designer, photographer and author, and she has featured in many newspapers and magazines. Over 350,000 subscribers, Heidi has turned a passion into pure success.

Alexa Ranking; 22,298

2; Marko Saric – For those who missed TheInfoPreneurs top 5 Most Influential Blogs His site HowToMakeMyBlog.com was the first site I found (and stuck with) that detailed how and what to do when starting out, He writes making no assumptions about his readers, detailing everything in a really easy to read format. I can’t emphasise enough what a difference this guy has made on my life, a great writer, a fantastic honest person, and best of all… He lives in the UK! He only started his site in the back end of 2008, and a year later has already had well over 200,000 unique visitors. Great site, great content, great InfoPreneur! This guy has continued to top my most influential blogs. Crazy dedicated and a role model for me, If he can make it, then so will I!

Alexa Ranking; 29,699

And number 1….

1; David Risley – For those who missed TheInfoPreneurs top 5 Most Influential Blogs Confessions of a 6 figure blogger DavidRisley.com is a site, that I use for motivation. I can relate to him because he is clearly a family guy, and quite clearly making an excellent living through his site and is loving the opportunity to help others. Hugely inspirational character and a household name in the Blogging/InfoPreneur world. A massive success and has no objections about telling you how much he made last year (Over $140,000) which is done in such a nice way it motivates rather than alienates! Staying number 1 for me, David does videos, podcasts, blogs, pdf’s turning every piece of advice into every available format for you to learn, and stay motivated, an amazing  guy, and one hell of an inspiration.

Alexa Ranking; 37,627

You will notice that some of the top 5′s from my previous post’s have not even made it into the top 10 of this one, why?…. Simple, why not? This is my personal choice of most influential blogs right now, it could change tomorrow, but for now please show your appreciation and re-tweet and comment.

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A very quick post to talk about the importance of motivating your readers and followers, but don’t alienate them. I write as I speak, very simple, honest and without upsetting anyone (hopefully). Motivation is key to everything you do, If you motivate others and you yourself are motivated, then you will attract positive motivated people.

But

If you talk down to people, treat your readers like they are dumb (which there not, because they have come to read what your saying) then your going to take a nose dive extremely quickly and you may not recover. Alienating people can be quite easy if you write when your not in the right frame of mind. We all have bad days, but if you are having a rough time, chance are its not a good time to post.

Ways of Motivating

• Success stories with an unlikely result. Richard Branson for example went bankrupt three times before he made it, Simon Cowell lost everything when he was 31 years old, now look at him
• Personal stories, negative or positive, talk about how you overcame it or what you have learnt
• Extraordinary stories of courage and strength, doesn’t have to be related to the internet, choose a soldiers story from Afghanistan for example.

By motivating people, they are more than likely to come back to keep in that frame of mind, they like the way they feel whilst on your site, so keep them happy and they will come back.

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Writers block is something all InfoPreneurs/Bloggers go through, I would imagine Barack Obama’s speech writer Jon Favreau suffers from it every now and again. I’m not a literal genius, A hell of a lot of work goes into these posts and I suffer with writers block quite a lot, but instead of typing up some drivel I am not passionate about just to get a new post up, I get my pen and paper and scrawl down ideas;

So what did I come up with for post ideas?

What we can learn from Ronin;

Making references to the film Ronin, with Robert De-Nero. My all time favourite film, but more specifically talking about the fact that they were master-less and went on to create their own destiny

How to write an eBook;

I have been researching this myself of late prior to launching a series of training aids next year, so it would make sense to talk about it.

How to capitalize on traffic spikes;

Again having recent traffic spikes on the site, I have been playing around with different ways of building on it.

Dealing with traffic flat spots;

Again any new site has flat spots, as much as you want to you can’t always beat yesterdays visitors, but their is a way to deal with it.

Why use thesis;

Its the template I use with wordpress but I struggled for a long time with other platforms.

If you had $500 to spend on your site, how would you spend it?

A good question and will hopefully generate a lot of interest, and one that I will write about later today.

Dealing with negative comments;

We all get them, and we take it personally, here’s how to turn it into a positive.

Is there an alternative to WordPress?

I have used a lot of different platforms but some people feel forced to use wordpress, There are alternatives out there.

So from having a complete meltdown about what I was going to write about today, I’ve got 9 post title ideas which will keep me going for the next week and it only took, 2-3 minutes of sitting down with a pen and write the first thing that comes into my tiny little brain!
How do you cope with writers block?

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The old saying of don’t run before you walk is probably one of the most common saying around. Everyone has heard of it and probably been instructed by it at some point in their life. Well theInfoPreneur thinks differently. I say ‘ Run before you walk’

If you have read my ‘About’ me page, you will know that I have ran several start up internet business’, some have failed, but the majority have been a great success, and I put that down to my initial statement, running straight into it!

When I set TheInfoPreneur site up I didn’t know how I was going to approach, Where I was going to take it, or where I wanted to end up. That said the best way for me to learn is by jumping in with both feet and finding out from there. I am of the opinion if you walk, its quicker for you to come to a stand still, and more importantly easy for someone to overtake you.

I’m a keen Ultra-Marathon runner, I run at near full pace to build muscular endurance and heart rate threshold, I couldn’t run the times or miles I do if I bimble around or walked up and down the hills! ‘Train Hard, Fight Easy’

Granted by going at it all guns blazing, your going to make mistakes, but those mistakes come early on, because your running not walking. And by tackling those hurdles nice and early you get where you want to be a lot quicker!

• Imagine you have never been on a roller coaster, and not on e of those wooden framed up and over jobs, a real ten looper that pulls 3G’s in the corners. Now you could start off by going on a ferris wheel, then onto a ghost train, from there maybe try a pirate ship then tackle a log flume before finally building enough courage to go for the big one, But why would you waste your time? Do the big ten looper first and then go on all the other rides having the confidence that you will conquer it.

• Another way to look at it would be to look at sky diving, You don’t use progressions on diving boards starting at 10 feet working all the way up to 1,990 feet then finally jump, You go and jump straight out at 2,000 feet. (FYI I know there is more to it, but you get my point)

I’ll concede that walking and learning the ropes slow time, can sometimes have its advantages, brain Surgery for instance takes time! But in being an InfoPreneur, you need to (I believe) go at it full throttle, and attack it with everything you have right from the start!

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