Are you to smart to be rich?

You know, I found a quote from one of the people I most trust (that is an incredibly important distinction to make, true trust is hard to come by) in the internet marketing world.  Charles Heflin.  This is what it said:

Online business is quickly lost by thinking too much.

Don’t think… Research… Allow the Internet to reveal the answers you are seeking.

It echoed some of the words that made a huge difference to me when I actually spent money to go to my first, learn to be rich seminar.  (That was actually the name, it was a seminar from Robert Kiyosaki’s company, and was all about investing in real estate.)

The instructor asked again and again:

Are you dumb enough to be rich?

It is an interesting question.  But a very deep personal success one that needs to be considered.  The more you try to figure it out sometimes, the worse it gets.  Everyday that goes by that it isn’t done, isn’t up, isn’t running is a day that you are loosing money.  The fact is, we often stop ourselves from succeeding by relying on a very weak link, ourselves.  There is so much experience, data, and help out there to make sure you don’t fail that there really is absolutely no reason to do so.

My personal analogy for this with internet marketing is finding a hole in a flat tire.  ( I have actually had to do this recently) and it is nearly impossible to figure out what is wrong untill you are willing to put some air in the tire.  It is no different with a website, sales process, optin page, or even a whole market.  The axiom here in marketing is:

TEST! TEST! TEST! For a reason.

The question is simple.  Would you rather get it right 100% of the time or what ever your percentage is?  No one is perfect, so obviously you will be wrong some percentage of the time.  Testing a market, an idea, a strategy, whatever will only get you closer to your goal, quicker.  So there we have it.  Research your market, and let the result speak for themselves.

I am needing to do this as well, as always.  It seems that the advice I pass on here is basically the advice I needed to hear and apply.  That is why I get fired up enough to say something.

To testing.

AJ