Have you noticed something?
It seems as though there are a dozen really powerful bloggers who control the Internet.
This group decides who becomes famous and who does not. They set the standard for what a well-designed blog should look like. They write the best copy and win the most subscribers.
And everyone knows it.
This group gets more attention in an hour than you do in a month of Mondays.
“An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field.”
— Niels Bohr
“You’ll leave this class with your knowledge, not mine. Your employer will known within two weeks everything you’ve learned.”
— Mike Pierce
Admit it or not, you dislike learning new stuff. After all, you aren’t paid to learn; you’re paid to solve problems. If there are two problems and you know how to fix one, which are you going to tackle?
Before the Internet, you had to be nice to people in order to make a living. You had to show up for work. Once you showed up, you had to work eight hours with other humans without getting fired.
But an Internet generation has learned how to get rich without being civil. Let me give you an example. At Blog World 2011, I met an entrepreneur who built a very lucrative Internet-based business. Yet he was easily one of the rudest people I’ve ever met. “If you worked at McDonald’s, you’d get fired before your second day,” I said. “Of course I would!” he said, nose tilted high. “But I’ve escaped that jungle and created my own world.” He was proud he could be rude to anyone he pleased and still make a comfortable living with his home-based business.
Does this sound like you?
You’ve picked 2012 as the year you’re going to build your first 1,000 blog readers.
You’ve carefully read Internet Marketing blogs and you just KNOW the secret is in the email list. You’ve learned you need to place strategic forms throughout your site, but you just don’t know how. You’ve never studied syntax before and the project is sucking your time. Your forms look pathetic and you’re about to scream.
But it gets worse.