Vacuums Are For Housework - Alone in Internet Marketing
August 20th, 2007 by marg5
Since the Internet was nothing more to me than an easy way to get banking
done during my busy schedule, I had little knowledge about it’s marvels or
pitfalls. That is no longer the case. In these past grueling months of
investigating online “opportunities,” the absolute truth came to me like a
blinding light.
Learning in a vacuum is not learning. It is a series of mistakes, errors in
judgment and a roller-coaster of low lows and high highs. Trying to cope
without the fresh breeze of another’s ideas is not the way to success in any
business. Particularly in one that is, after all, world wide! To believe that,
without any experience and all alone, one can simply become instantly wealthy,
is a terrible misconception.
The truth is that we need leadership. We need mentors with sterling
reputations who will guide us with patience, compassion and excitement. It is
a necessity to not feel alone, sealed off in front of a machine while
trudging through this mystical maze of “opportunities.”
Like many of you, I am weary of the term “mentor” as used online. Everyone it
seems is an expert. Everyone has an immediate solution to your problem. It is
not about those countless “coaches” that I write.
Thankfully (for students like myself) there are real mentors out there. They
have created their own successes, built their own companies and usually have
a sense of the greater good. These actual professionals, with their real
lives and issues, are tremendously important to the learning that must be
done to succeed. Most importantly, they give us inspiration.
None of the real mentors ask us to sit quietly and do nothing. They do not
ask - they demand. They demand that we see in ourselves the ability to be
more than we are. They encourage our evolution; through hard work and
persistence.
Real leaders do not sell pipe dreams. They most especially do not allow nor
encourage just anyone to join them in the journey. Actual mentors want actual
students. The demand dedication to a cause, foresight in visualizing our
goals and the toughness to get tasks done to accomplish the success they have
modeled. They are selfless in sharing their successes. Even more astounding
to me, they are uninhibited in sharing their failures and flaws. Now that, is
a leader!
You may be wondering how to find such people. It isn’t easy to weed out the
pretenders from the real, I know. I cannot say that I miraculously zoned in
on them. Like everything else in this business, it took a lot of slow,
grinding work. Trust me when I tell you, once found, you’ll recognize them
right away. If the “mentor” you stumble upon does not offer some kind of
guaranty, then likely your search should continue.
If I were to apply any one suggestion to the weeding prospects, I think it
would be that. Mentors worth your time will guaranty your success. In some
way or other you will find them offering a successful completion of your
learning with no risk. You will get from A to B in a certain time-frame
directly because of their support and training systems (urgently important).
Along the way, you will have live support, actual contact with trainers and
answers to your questions no matter how inane they may seem.
In summation, these actual people will be accessible; will have so much
confidence in their own success as to guaranty yours; will provide all the
tools you need; will offer all of this or a return on your investment (large
or small) if you do not get there from here.
Please keep in mind at all times, they are obligated to do all of this if you
do the work. That is your commitment - success is their’s.
Margaret Mackenzie
