Anyone else get INSANELY stressed from failing campaigns?
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Any business you run there will be a ton of stress. That just comes with the job since it is high risk/high reward. To me working for someone 9-5 for 40k/yr for the next 30 years seems like a lot more stress than running my own biz and having to solve problems on my own daily.
yet also has the chance of making your year/decade in a matter of weeks/months.
there is an acceptable risk:reward for everyone in life- you just gotta find yours in business. Nothing new about that. Too much stress than yeah, follow this tip and build for the long term.
You don't find those who take this approach at the top though. (you also don't usually find them in the gutter with a needle in their arm either).
pick your poison.
Think about the jobs you had, or may still be stuck in, and the stress you got. Some of the lowest paying jobs are the most stressful, like cashier. You make something like $8.50 an hour handling cash and credit cards, standing on your feet, and they count your box at the end of the shift. If the figures don't tally up you may have to make up the difference, and there's a mark on your record when you come up short. I did cashiering as a high school kid, and remember when an asshole customer screamed at me because I accidentally shortchanged him a nickel.
I could give other examples, but made the point. No endeavor is stress-free.
I could give other examples, but made the point. No endeavor is stress-free.
I kinda like failing campaigns. If it didnt work out just don't do it anymore and it's one less thing to be anxious about trying out. You learn bitch, dont complain. Next one will turn out good.
Unless you keep failing... then you just might have to quit and go build your resume. NAWT!!!
Unless you keep failing... then you just might have to quit and go build your resume. NAWT!!!
Yeah, failing something sucks. I started a company 3 years ago, put my total heart into, and it flopped. It was drat depressing and I was all emo over it.
But I had a choice (you always have a choice). Give up, and let that one failure rob you of all your future successes and wealth, and become a failure yourself. Float the fucking fail boat down fail river and never get off it.
Or admit it's over and learn what you can.
No one likes to strike out. No one wants the stress of working hard at something to see it crumble. But it happens. Things fall apart. It's just a fact of a entropy dominated universe.
But every thing that flops you can learn from. I learned more about marketing from my failed startup than I would have learned in school.
Find out what you could have done better. Did you overbid and have bad margins? Bad audience targetting? Poorly converting offer? Does your LP suck so badly no one clicks through?
Then finally, get comfortable with the fact you might fail again, but you can also succeed. Every step you keep going without breaking down and quitting is a step closer to victory.
Take some time off from campaigns. I know you're probably thinking you should always be cranking them out, but if you're about to smash your compy you're not going to be on the right mindset to do well.
Smoke weed. Go clubbing or hiking. Anything.
But the day you flip out and walk away is the day you abandoned your future wealth.
But I had a choice (you always have a choice). Give up, and let that one failure rob you of all your future successes and wealth, and become a failure yourself. Float the fucking fail boat down fail river and never get off it.
Or admit it's over and learn what you can.
No one likes to strike out. No one wants the stress of working hard at something to see it crumble. But it happens. Things fall apart. It's just a fact of a entropy dominated universe.
But every thing that flops you can learn from. I learned more about marketing from my failed startup than I would have learned in school.
Find out what you could have done better. Did you overbid and have bad margins? Bad audience targetting? Poorly converting offer? Does your LP suck so badly no one clicks through?
Then finally, get comfortable with the fact you might fail again, but you can also succeed. Every step you keep going without breaking down and quitting is a step closer to victory.
Take some time off from campaigns. I know you're probably thinking you should always be cranking them out, but if you're about to smash your compy you're not going to be on the right mindset to do well.
Smoke weed. Go clubbing or hiking. Anything.
But the day you flip out and walk away is the day you abandoned your future wealth.
i do my thinking when driving, too. good advice. its not as simple as "just do it better", "keep at it", "keep testing". You have to figure out what routine works for you, in terms of problem solving. Or its not testing/refining, its just throwing more money away.
Jordan I know you from another webmaster forum.
If you're going to ASW hit me up another guy from that forum is going too (plus me)(not together, but we will hang out once there)(P.S. seriously just because I know all the actor's names from twilight doesnt mean i like guys).
If you're going to ASW hit me up another guy from that forum is going too (plus me)(not together, but we will hang out once there)(P.S. seriously just because I know all the actor's names from twilight doesnt mean i like guys).