Don’t treat marketing like a skateboard

When I was in junior high my neighborhood friends and I all bought skateboards and became obsessed with them for a while.

Unfortunately we were dumb enough to play tag on our skateboards.

The person who was “it” would tag someone by pushing them off their skateboard.

My mom warned me that I would get hurt if I kept playing skateboard tag.

Sure enough, my fascination with skateboards came to an abrupt end when the neighborhood bully pushed me off my skateboard.

He lost his balance while tagging  me and he landed on
my wrist as we both fell to the ground.

In an effort to avoid hearing “See, I told you so” from
my mom, I tried to ignore the pain, which grew
progressively worse.

I went to school the next day but the pain became
unbearable.

Finally I confessed my injury to my mom and she took
me to the doctor. My wrist was fractured and I had to
wear a brace for a while.

I hung my skateboard up on the garage wall and never
used it again, even though I had saved up my money
for it and spent considerable time picking it out at
the hobby shop.

Fortunately I didn’t give up on internet marketing
after my first failure, even though I was briefly tempted
to hang it up, just like that old skateboard of mine.

Chris Rempel’s Confessions of a Lazy Marketer is one
of the reasons I’ve been able to succeed:

http://www.focator.com/ConfessionsLazyMarketer

I kept hearing about his hype-free sales page so I
checked it out.

It was unlike any other sales page I’ve seen.

And if you read it you’ll see the story of
how his own failure with skateboards led him directly
to internet marketing.

http://www.focator.com/ConfessionsLazyMarketer

I cringe when I think about some of my early
websites.

I plunged ahead without really knowing what I
was doing, kind of like when I foolishly played
skateboard tag.

I didn’t pick the right affiliate programs – some of
them up and canceled on me without notifying
me – and I even screwed up the Adsense on my
site and Google closed my account.

But Chris helped me to see that, “The more action
you take the more money you make.”

The important thing is to take action, even if
you screw up sometimes.

And the very best action you can take right now
is to make the tiny investment in Lazy Super
Affiliate.

http://www.focator.com/ConfessionsLazyMarketer

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