Make No Mistakes
What's the best way to avoid making mistakes?
Do nothing! Sit down, turn on the TV, and
zone out. That's safe.
Fueled by fear of failure, many take the
path above to avoid mistakes. While you'll
never earn a huge wad of money from an
internet business using that method, you won't
lose your shirt either.
On the other side of the spectrum, some
barrel ahead like bulls in a china shop and
make mistakes that harm or destroy their
businesses.
Is there a happy medium? Is it possible
to go forward and avoid mistakes at the same
time?
Well, back in what seems like another
lifetime, I used to work as an air traffic
controller. That's a line of work where
mistakes make the front page of
newspapers, perpetrators can go to jail and
victims suffer more deadly fates.
Fortunately, such errors occur very
infrequently.
How is it possible to avoid mistakes,
when 'to err is human'? Although some of my
old colleagues appear to believe they are
above mere human status, the truth is more
mundane.
Rigid rules, standards and procedures are
followed to the letter. In the
split-second before instructions are
given, maneuvers are planned and followed
mentally to their conclusion. Knowledge and
ability is tested continuously to ensure
rigorous safety standards are
maintained. Planning and perfect performance
results in beautifully choreographed aerial
ballets time after time.
Planning aside, mistakes are made. The
objective is to avoid repetition of the
error. To accomplish this, even the
most minor infractions are meticulously
logged. Each is reviewed, dissected and
studied to determine the best method
to prevent a recurrence. Both the incident
and its resulting procedures are taught and
discussed at training sessions.
The best advice I ever heard about this
method of learning came in one of the pilots'
magazines I used to read. The accident
reports were preceded each month by the same
tag line: 'Learn from the mistakes of others,
for you'll not live long enough to make them
all yourself'.
The good news for those just starting an
Internet is that the barnstorming,
fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants days
of eBusiness are over. True, many businesses
crashed and burned. Many more worked to
perfect the process and survived to fly
circles around the smoking reckless.
Best of all, the mistakes made by those
barnstorming eBusiness pioneers have been
well-documented and made available through
forums, ebooks and courses.
Save yourself time, money and heartache.
Learn from them and watch your Internet
business soar.
Author's Resource: Article by Rosalind Gardner,
author of the best-selling "Super Affiliate Handbook: How I Made $436,797 in One Year Selling Other People's Stuff Online". To learn how you too can succeed in Internet and affiliate marketing, please visit
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