3 Things Every Newbie Must Avoid to Succeed Making Money Online

Getting started with an online business is exciting and exhilarating with each guru success story published, or each product launch sequence you find yourself in.  It also can be exasperating. Beginners make make a few dollars early on, but that can be difficult to sustain, and scale to warrant quitting their day job and pursue their dream of freedom, and illustrious career marketing online.  What often happens is aspiring online online marketers realize getting started with an online business might not be as easy as they thought.

3 Things Every Newbie Must Avoid to Succeed Making Money Online

Many default responses to success shortcomings relegate the problem to some sort of lack in technology tools, training, or other information, which can further distract from the real issues at hand, head trash.

Comparing Yourself to Others – Stop

Let’s face it, there are no clones.  You are unique, and uniquely qualified for specific tasks.  You cannot be replicated, and neither can your favorite internet marketing guru.  It is my belief, that the sooner you get comfortable with that, the sooner you’ll be successful online or anywhere in life.  This comes with maturity and maturity is often the by product of experience.  Most of us are ordinary people.  Not all are phenoms the likes of a LeBron James or more recently Bryce Harper (baseball)  including online marketing gurus.  The fact is they were getting started one day online as well, and took a unique journey.  Your journey is unique, embrace that reality while learning from those who are ahead of you.

Living Without Goals

Someone wise once said, “Aim at nothing, and you’ll hit it everytime.”  Have you ever set a goal, that you did not obtain?  Welcome to the club.  It just means you need more practice in goals setting.  Make sure that your daily activities are supporting your goals, and fight off distraction like an attack dog. There are many legitimate ways to make money online, but without goals, you won’t arrive there.

If goals are worth having, they are worth writing down.

I’ve found four goals to work well annual, quarterly, weekly and daily.  In using my timer, one could say that I have goals with each task I write down in my daily checklist.  My goal is to beat the timer in accomplishing a task.  I encourage you to consider that as well.

Operating Outside of Your Abilities

Do you enjoy sports?  In a recent playoff series, one commentator said that players are trying too hard and playing outside of their abilities.  This happens as well with many newbies in internet marketing, and can be a result of comparing (point 1).  Don’t get me wrong, you need skills to succeed online.  As you grow, you will sharpen your skills.  What I’m talking about here is abilities.  Abilities are activities that you are wired to do, do well, and enjoy doing for the most part.  While I have the ability to do my accounting, I don’t enjoy it, nor am I wired to do it, and as a result am not very good at it, but it is essential.  My accounting abilities (or lack thereof) is a constraint in my business.  As such, I hired someone to do much of it.  Your abilities and constraints may be different, find someone to outsource the work to, or partner who is cutout for that task.  John Assaraf said it well, “Hire people who play at what you work at”.

Bottomline: Avoid the traps that easily ensare you when getting started with an online business, when you do that, success is just around the corner.

Talk Back: What say you?  Ever run up against these constraints? What concerns you about starting your online business?  What have you realized in your online endeavors about your constraints?

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