E-Marketing Professionals

There’s nothing wrong with gathering tidbits of information and ideas and storing them away for later use. But if that’s all you ever do, you’re going to leave a ton of money on the table.

Once you’ve studied something that can help your business, implement it before you move on to the next thing. If you’ve already made a habit of buying every “shiny object” that comes along and never implementing more than a few little ideas from each, you might make a strict rule for yourself that you are not allowed to spend another penny until you’ve 1) made a list of things you should implement from the last course you bought, and 2) have implemented them.

You’ll get more value out of implementing the lessons from one course than from learning and not implementing the lessons from 100 courses. Plus, it’s a lot less expensive. The other courses will still be there waiting for you to buy them once you’ve finished with the last one.

As you’re learning, you’re going to make mistakes. Everybody does. Don’t let fear of mistakes slow you down. You’ll be more successful if you make mistakes and correct them than if you never do anything at all, right?

That’s not to say that you should release shoddy work, thinking you can come back and fix it later. Laziness will come back to bite you. Just don’t let yourself get paralyzed by fear or excessive perfectionism.

You can’t fix your mistakes till you know what they are. But if you’re still learning internet marketing, how can you tell what you’re doing right and what you’re doing wrong?

Obviously, if you’re not seeing success, you must be doing something wrong. But do you just need a better headline for your squeeze page? Are your autoresponder messages written wrong? Does your AdWords ad need a rewrite? Is there something wrong with the product? Did you pick a bad niche? Do you need to find the right affiliates or JV partners? Do you just need to keep at it a little longer?

The fastest way to find your mistakes is to get feedback from other people. Ideally, you’d like feedback from someone with more experience and knowledge than you, but even that isn’t always necessary. Sometimes, the only people qualified to reveal your mistakes are members of your target market.

If you can afford to hire a qualified mentor, they’ll be the best equipped to help you uncover big holes in your business — things that are immediately, glaringly obvious to them because they’ve been around the block a few times and filled those holes in their own businesses.