Music for your orgasmic reading pleasure…
I hadn’t intended to post anything until I got home, but there has been an idea floating around in my head for some time that I wanted all the noobies I’m talking to to know. I’ve gotten a lot more comments and hits from various places, ready to get into this marketing game. I’m getting a lot more questions on aim and so on, but I wanted to say this…
I held off on posting this because I couldn’t figure out the best way to say it, but I was having a conversation with my buddy and he said it perfectly, and this is what he said. It sums up what I was thinking just perfectly:
I feel the same way.
Once you are profitable in this industry.
Marketing as a whole.
There’s so many projects that you can run.
THIS is very important. So important. When you start everything is overwhelming for sure, you don’t know where to begin. There’s that feeling like what if I start this and it’s a waste of time and I don’t learn anything because I made the dumb mistake of choosing the wrong route, simply because I didn’t know better.
That… is completely incorrect. When I first started all this, I read for 16 hours straight for like a week straight just absorbing and learning. I distinctly remember reading something, then actually building the landing page/tracking method/campaign… then reading something else which was BETTER… spending another day redoing the exact same thing in a different way, different trackers, different lander styles. This must have repeated 5 or 6 times, and THEN I read a post about wordpress and did the entire thing over AGAIN. From the outside it looks like an entire “wasted” week because I just went in circles, and at the end of the week I still didn’t have any finished item. Let me tell you though, I have used every single one of those things I have learned at LEAST 100 times since then, in the past year, even if it wasn’t that time.
That is the meat of this post, and why I feel it’s so important. Everything you’re learning here interlinks in ways you can’t even begin to comprehend when you’re first starting out. The first thing you learn, whether it’s ppc, ppv, media buys, seo, etc, is going to seem like the hardest thing ever. The second thing you learn will be hard too.. but after that you start to get a bigger picture and have a lot of ‘ah-ha’ moments.
EVENTUALLY, you will get to a point where your understanding is so all-encompassing that you will have tons of different projects on your plate. More than you will be able to handle! You will ‘actually’ be thinking outside the box. Right now, since making this post yesterday, I had 2 more opportunities come up that are insanely amazing. Big time Travis is in a Maserati amazing. It would be something I couldn’t even SEE in the matrix of life though, had I not known all this other interlinking stuff.
Just keep that in mind when you’re learning… and look forward to the point you WILL reach when you will start to get a massive -flood- of ideas, opportunities, people wanting to network with you, and literally so many chances to succeed. Many of them will fail, but when one fails, 3 more will popup. It’s the most exhilarating thing ever :]
I’m off to buy my shoes now
I love...
did we meet at aff summit vegas?
Your posts are motivating! I was pretty worried that I would spend a lot of time learning “irrelevant” or out-dated information. I love to learn, so I know I’ll get stuck at my computer learning this stuff!
Yo, Travis,
Good post bro. love it. Enjoyed meeting you at the Affiliate Summit. Practice on the drinking and we’ll have to do a bet or smth next time
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ATL Mark
@Mark
Lol,
I talked to him on the phone once or twice while he was there and he sounded rought.
Cant stress the validity of this post. Basically no choice you ever make will ever be a waste if you choose to take heed of the lessons the materialize from the outcome of that choice.
When Trav starting teaching me how to get paid on the web a year ago he definitly held my hand and helped me through 90% of the overwhelming shit i ran into. Alot of frustration on my part cuz i didnt k now shit, and alot of frustration on his part for me constantly bugging him. He did a great job of teaching me while he was learning himself, however.
Here we are a year later and i own like 10 websites, one of which is a forum built from scratch that i just turned down a $3200 offer for. The site is easily going to be worth $20k + within a year. We just finsished a sweet software upgrade and we are hiring programmers and such to build in custom features and functionality that will revolutionize our niche.
We are also in a niche where there is virtually no advertising options or incentives for other developers to get into this niche, so we are also developing our own ad/link network ala adsense style. Basically you sign up with us and you instantly sign up to about 150+ niche related affiliate programs.
Also we are getting ready to open corporate offices in Ann Arbor for our small seed capital fund, CloudSpark Seed Fund, LLC
If you are an entrepreneur, then visit our homepage and keep in touch with us.
http://www.cloudspark.org
Point being is that this last year has been a year of many first for me, and every step of the way there were lessons learned. The main thing i think people need to pay attention to is self evaluation and direction. What are your goals? Write them down and know them. Develop a standard of excellence for yoursef.
Stellar posting T-Weezy
@DarkHorse,
You sound like you know me
did we meet at aff summit vegas?
@Mark
Naw, i didnt get to go to ASW this year. (too much going on). Maybe next year.
Good to holler at you tho. Im glad my writing comes off as nice and friendly… Ill bet you wanna buy something right now dont you!
lol
but whats that lame thing they always say? “Any friend Travis’ is a friend of mine”!
-DH
*edit* Wow it’s getting gay in here -Travis
Awesome track, used to listen to that at work (or in fact Deadmau5 – Faxing Berlin).
peace
Hey Travis, good to see you’re still up and running.
Haven’t heard from you or seen you online in a while. Hope everything’s doing well. I’ll hit you up SOLAR if I see you online.
Hey Josh,
yep im alive! i’m actually at home though visiting with a lot of my family before I move to a new state, so I’m a bit busy in transition. I should be online quite a bit though in the next few days starting monday. And yep, Solar is my new aim name