This site is a truly awesome resource for all things you need to know about online marketing. Most of the people here have been very helpful, as well. However, it's the fear of failing that I am most afraid of. Has anyone ever experienced that while starting working online? I can see a lot of experienced internet marketers here and I'm sure you had your share of failures, too. How were you able to overcome it? How many times did you fail before you succeed?
Fear of failing
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Lol for example when I first started I was using google keyword tool. Checked global results, thought I hit a homerun when I hit first page for this clickbank product, only to find out it was a dud 300 exact matches ... I think a lot of people know that feel
Exactly! I agree, every failure is the perfect opportunity to analyze even more what went wrong, and how not to repeat your failures.
Learning from failures can turn future opportunities into success.
The fear of failure is the reason there is so much opportunity in the online world. Embrace it.
I've done well over the past year using SEO. But now I'm going to start buying traffic and trying to convert with products that I have no experience with.
I'm scared of losing money, I have butterflies in my stomach, I'm totally outside my comfort zone.
And I love it
It's proof that I'm growing.
I remember the first day I made $1.00 online. That was it, then I remember, the day I consistently made a $1.00 a day. Then I hit the $10.00 on day, and never went above that for a long time, because I thought it would be too hard to make $100 a day. Then I decided to break that mark, and made some adjustment to one of my site's layout, I started hitting $11, and then jumped to $35, and the triple digits came, $121 in one day.
I thought it was all the money in the world, and I thought I arrived... Now you can't get me out of bed if you waved that in front of me...
Every time I kept hitting and breaking barriers, I did very very simple things - the only thing holding me back was being scared to fail. but then I remembered, I had nothing to lose.
"I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny… I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind should infect me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep mine eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows. I will persist until I succeed." - Og Mandino
I thought it was all the money in the world, and I thought I arrived... Now you can't get me out of bed if you waved that in front of me...
Every time I kept hitting and breaking barriers, I did very very simple things - the only thing holding me back was being scared to fail. but then I remembered, I had nothing to lose.
"I will persist until I succeed. I was not delivered unto this world in defeat, nor does failure course in my veins. I am not a sheep waiting to be prodded by my shepherd. I am a lion and I refuse to talk, to walk, to sleep with the sheep. I will hear not those who weep and complain, for their disease is contagious. Let them join the sheep. The slaughterhouse of failure is not my destiny… I will never consider defeat and I will remove from my vocabulary such words and phrases as quit, cannot, unable, impossible, out of the question, improbable, failure, unworkable, hopeless, and retreat; for they are the words of fools. I will avoid despair but if this disease of the mind should infect me then I will work on in despair. I will toil and I will endure. I will ignore the obstacles at my feet and keep mine eyes on the goals above my head, for I know that where dry desert ends, green grass grows. I will persist until I succeed." - Og Mandino
This is amazing! Thank you, CCarter. I guess taking that first step is the key. Never mind the sweaty palms and irregular heartbeats, it's deciding to take the plunge that matters, huh?
Right now, I'm starting to learn how to build a website with Wealthy Affiliate
I know it's a long way to go, but as Og Mandino said, "I will persist until I succeed." Very well said.
If it makes you feel any better, you already have one clear advantage over your competition. You found Wicked Fire. And sure, we're a bunch of chauvinist pigs. But this is by far the best, bullshit free, AM forum in existence. Lot's of your competition is probably busy dicking around over at Digital Point or buying WSO's.
I have a ton of failures. They were more plentiful than my successes.
But most failures are relatively small compared to the successes. For example, the most money I have lost doing something dumb is under $10k.
The most money I have made doing something smart is more than 10x that.
Watch this
Tim Ferriss - Google IO Ignite - Practical Pessimism - YouTube
then this
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape - YouTube
hth
But most failures are relatively small compared to the successes. For example, the most money I have lost doing something dumb is under $10k.
The most money I have made doing something smart is more than 10x that.
Watch this
Tim Ferriss - Google IO Ignite - Practical Pessimism - YouTube
then this
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Gary Vaynerchuk (Wine Library), Building Personal Brand Within the Social Media Landscape - YouTube
hth
