What do you know now that you wish you knew when you started?
- Thread starter Nick1990
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Just get started. If you fail fuck it. What did you really have to lose in the first place? Money, Hell the government makes more of it every day. Stop reading shit and just do something. No one is going to take your hand, Even if they would what works for them might not work for you.
the average income for a single white male is $69k so dont put some dumb $100/day internet money on a pedestal because that is 1/2 of fucking AVERAGE pay. step up your game because no one gives a fuck if you make millinos of dollars because hundreds of millinos of people already do and no one cares about you and opportunities are everywhere it is just that going to public school you get brainwashed into thinking small.
I wish i knew the potential of everything when I first started. I felt like fall/winter 2008 I was expecting it to end everyday. I never knew it was going to keep going and going.
I kept thinking surely this won't get any bigger. If I could only go back to summer of 2008...
I kept thinking surely this won't get any bigger. If I could only go back to summer of 2008...
That i shouldn't spend money on other people , and invest it in myself. Also to go broad once something works.
Every time I go to a concert, I buy "that guy" a drink. I don't know if any of them quite understand why. I just walk up, point at their shirt, and say "You're that guy! What are you drinking, I'll buy you one."
(There are usually two or three people nearby who get the joke and end up buying me a couple drinks before the end of the night, so it's a good investment.)
Look at that body language:
His: He is leaning towards her, arm behind her but looks like he placed it there secretly without her knowing it. notice that his fist behind her is clamped shut and not spread out like he's leaning into it, he snuck it back there pre-snap.
Hers: Leg folded away from him, body moving away, hips pulled away. her head is tilted his direction to appear close for the photo. my guess is she's thinking OH GOD PLEASE TAKE THE PHOTO SO THIS DUDE WILL LEAVE
Her leg isn't just folded away from him...she's using both her hands to push it as far the fuck away from him as possible. As in "oh god please for the love of christ do not let this end up on Facebook..."
I concentrated a lot on seo and article content. I was/am a programmer so I could handle back-ends. Somehow I didn't "get" that the looks/asthetics really matter.
Recently, I've been investing more in the look and feel of my websites - and my subscribers per the same traffic have doubled - and money has been increasing. I've been getting more backlinks auto-magically too.
So I wish I would have paid attention to all of those people who tried to tell me my websites were kind of ugly. I did not think their opinions were important because they weren't making money online - BUT they did matter because they were the kind of people who would be my visitors.
I was making an income - which was more than 90% of IM's do - but had hit a wall. This is getting me over the wall.
Moral - if you have a weakness, it might be worth it to pay for help.
Recently, I've been investing more in the look and feel of my websites - and my subscribers per the same traffic have doubled - and money has been increasing. I've been getting more backlinks auto-magically too.
So I wish I would have paid attention to all of those people who tried to tell me my websites were kind of ugly. I did not think their opinions were important because they weren't making money online - BUT they did matter because they were the kind of people who would be my visitors.
I was making an income - which was more than 90% of IM's do - but had hit a wall. This is getting me over the wall.
Moral - if you have a weakness, it might be worth it to pay for help.
Nice post bitsdawg.
I wish I was a lot more aggressive when I started. I am a conservative person, and err on the side of caution almost always, but every time I have made a big advance was when I just went for it, sometimes falling on my face spectacularly, sometimes coming up a winner. But I never really made progress until I pushed it as far as I could.
If you fear failure, you cannot succeed. Failure is a great teacher.
I wish I was a lot more aggressive when I started. I am a conservative person, and err on the side of caution almost always, but every time I have made a big advance was when I just went for it, sometimes falling on my face spectacularly, sometimes coming up a winner. But I never really made progress until I pushed it as far as I could.
If you fear failure, you cannot succeed. Failure is a great teacher.
