Comments on: What Can Go-Karting Teach You About Blogging?

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:48:36 +0000

It’s a common problem, unfortunately!

Martin.

By: Martin

Martin — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 22:44:55 +0000

Good to hear the momentum is building again, Corrie – go for it!

Cheers,

Martin.

By: corrie

corrie — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 16:57:58 +0000

Happy New Year. I’m spending the first weeks of the New Year trying to settle on a direction. In the meantime, I am slowly building up traffic. Yeah!
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By: Nitecrest

Nitecrest — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 11:06:28 +0000

I agree that more time gets spent on evaluation and discussion, a virtual procrastinating game, than actually doing something for the blogsite.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:13:41 +0000

Thanks Jasmine, and the same to you!

Cheers,

Martin.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:12:59 +0000

You’re welcome, Greg, and all the best for 2010,

Cheers,

Martin.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 23:11:59 +0000

Hi Paul,

It probably was Winston Churchill, although I don’t remember. Along similar lines there’s an expression that says ‘if you haven’t failed you haven’t tried’.

Sounds like you’ve got a great business going there – brilliant!

And all the best for 2010 to you too,

Cheers,

Martin.

By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:14:06 +0000

Ho, sorry, I meant to say.

Happy New year!
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By: Paul

Paul — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 21:12:10 +0000

Spot on Martin! I agree 100% .Forget the books, forget meticulous planning just dive in there and do it.

Before I started my online business I read a number of books about the usual stuff, planning etc. There’re all full of the same stale advice. It wasn’t until I just jumped in and started trading that I really began to learn.

There’s nothing like facing real problems in a real time market to concentrate the mind on finding solutions. I learned on the wing. Sometimes it was hectic, sometimes I felt overwhelmed but eventually I got a grip and started to take control and become professional.

Sure I made lots of mistakes, I did things that when I look back now make me winch in embarrassment and I ask myself “what was I thinking of?” I learned more in one year of online trading than I could have learned in years of reading about it. I realise now how naive I was at the time, how little I knew but I wouldn’t change the experience for anything.

I went from casual EBay seller to power seller and eventually to commissioning an ecommerce site within a year, building up a customer base of thousands. From there I moved into internet marketing. I’m learning all the time, and failing much of the time but always coming back wiser and stronger.

I’m currently learning all I can about internet marketing and I’ve had some spectacular failures, but each time I gain a nugget of knowledge for the next attempt. Was it Winston Churchill who said: “success is going from failure to failure”
The hardest part is taking the decision to act. Once we make the decision and jump into the ring, we all discover than we’re braver than we thought, stronger than we believed and we all have the ability to become more than we are.

Great positive post
Paul
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By: Greg Tucker

Greg Tucker — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 18:48:59 +0000

Great blog entry. Thank you for all that you do.
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