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Learning By Others Mistakes! © By Lena Sanchez Norman Vincent Peale always said, "The greatest risk in life is to risk NOTHING... The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing, and becomes nothing." I am equally sure the risks meant were not to disregard learning from others and certainly not refusing to learn from other peoples mistakes. That would no longer be considered a risk but a foolish mistake! I wish there had been someone who I had run across in 1997 that would have told me the things I am about to tell you as it could have shortened my learning curve!!! Are you a person who will learn from others mistakes? I sure hope so. I have an ex-daughter-in-law who's favorite saying is, "I will have to make my own mistakes and then I will learn." And she does a lot of unnecessary learning and wasting time and money because of her attitude… Being the people watcher that I am, I have found that to be A sad practice, but it is also the majority of people in this world. If you are reading this I presume you are not one of the majority! I have always tried very hard to learn from other peoples mistakes so I don't waste time and or money! Not always successful but I try! But I am here to confess that sometimes that isn't possible when it is a New World and new business medium… The Internet is still in its infancy and a lot of people are making the same mistakes I made, some doozies. But I am here to hopefully prevent you from making those same mistakes and to shorten your learning curve on the Internet! Yes I believe you must "risk much to gain much" but not give away $money$ when you don't have to. In my quest for learning the art of Internet e-business I spent a lot of money just to learn about the Internet and the How-to's of doing business on it… No, it was not intentional but I wasted over $10,000 before I finally came across the real tools, and the true information and a multi-millionaire mentor to help me understand success online. Now that is an expensive learning curve and one you should strive to prevent from happening to you! I have a very large library of Internet Marketing and Sales books, manuals and articles collected in the last 6 years! My learning curve was expensive and one I don't take lightly or enjoy telling anyone about, but it is something that I can use to help you avoid the pitfalls that I endured for two long years of trying to become a successful Internet Entrepreneur. When my son and daughter-in-law introduced me to the Internet to keep me from going nuts due to my health restricted down time; I found a marvelous and enlightening world. I could travel without leaving my home, learn without sitting in a classroom, enjoy music, art, theatre, basically the world had become my oyster, so to speak. I was having FUN! After I was able to get around and sit for a time, I was invited to an Internet business seminar and thought it would be another great lesson… Well, greater than even I thought! I was fleeced out of $5300 - I call it fleeced because they told me I could put my natural health products and my book online and with their help make a fortune in less than a year. Such a lot of BULL that turned out to be! Yes, this very large company that travels all over the U.S. giving Internet business seminars selling websites on their Mall, took my money and proceeded to set up these really unprofessional looking websites. And when I complained, got no satisfaction and in some instances no one even answered my emails or phone calls and if they did answer I was shuffled off to someone else who would take days to get back to me… And when someone would try to place an order for my product- heaven forbid - the shopping cart or autoresponder wouldn't work half the time. Orders went to "Internet Sahara Sand Dunes of Nowhere," I would find out when an irate customer (I don't blame them) would email me. That company's shopping cart was the pits! G__ Mall's "helping me succeed on the Internet was," an offer of training for another $1200 or a page of free classifieds and free ads to submit to and 10 search engine URL's to submit my sites to. The $1200 class was a sham and farce to sell more advertising and would have ended up costing several thousands of dollars to complete… Lots of help it wasn't? Do you get the picture here? You can advertise until you are blue in the face to free classifieds and newsgroups and maybe, in five or six years, have your name recognized well enough that business will dribble in. I had the hottest selling products around at that time and a book that attracted everyone's attention with the title but a lot of good that was! Those failed plug ins cost me time and reputation setbacks! I have learned that it's not at all unusual on the Internet with companies who profess to help you succeed online. I really struggled, became exasperated all the while trying to get this particular company to correct their messes and endured it for a year, because I'm an eternal optimist, and a few problems were ever really solved. I was not sitting there pouting while this was all going on though. No, I do not do that! I continued to spend a lot of money on ezine advertising, software to submit my sites to thousands of classified, search engines, newsgroups, etc., which crashed my system over and over and created enough junk email offers to sink a battle ship… Oh yes, at first I looked at each offer and checked them out looking for answers to the dilemma of "how do I make this business work?" Unless you know how to draw traffic to your site you can forget any kind of associate programs… I think I belonged to about 12 and made a whole $350 in three years! Not because I didn't try every trick that I learned! Over the next year another $5,000 to $6,000 went on those "How to Make Money on the Internet" books from all the gurus I found, associate programs, advertising, etc. I think I have every "How to Make Money on the Internet,' program, book and information out there written by any so-called gurus. You name it I betcha I have read and/or tried it… I finally came to one conclusion; the Internet is a magnificent tool but a difficult business medium I then found true information that is working - See some of them at http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/business_library.htm I now have the joy of working the Internet with a professionally designed website and the traffic I could not find before. The tools that work and does not crash my system, a list server that delivers this ezine and any other announcements or specials I want my customers/clients to have. Also a customer service team that answers my emails in a timely fashion, of course I've only had a need for three. You would think that is enough, right? **** Author Lena Sanchez a retired Medical Office Administrator/nurse and Medical Office consultant editor of "Natural Environmental Health Facts" & Your Home Business Coach Ezines http://www.yourhomebizcoach.com/newsletter She continues her goal in life of helping people regain their health and wealth. A brief bio at http://www.antibiotic-alternatives.com/experiences.htm |
