Stop, Recognize & Optimize
April 10th, 2006
Written By: Adam Sussman
Making money on the internet is a thrilling experience! I am being completely honest when I write earning $1 in a new area can be just as thrilling as earning $8,000. The reason being, by the time I achieve any real high earning success I had to put some serious effort in developing a method to generate it.
I can not count how many times I have worked on some new internet idea where I inadvertently made a few dollars during the development stage of a much bigger idea and foolishly I had never stopped to see where the few bucks where coming from.
This lack of experience on my part to not stop and recognize what was going on during a development stage has undoubtedly cost me a fortune in potential earnings. Hindsight being what it is, today I kick myself for not taking the time to optimize a process or developed a system to recreate the efforts it took to generate those single internet dollars that have floated my way.
I’ve been talking to a few of my entrepreneurial friends and I am starting to believe many of us have the inherent tendency to overlook the low hanging fruit while on our quest to change the world.
I believe the preconceived expectations we set upon our self’s hold many of us back from achieving our real goal which is independence. As I continue to put the pieces together in developing myself to become a more sophisticated Entrepreneur I am starting to believe in an important element to real success.
We must seriously learn to take the time stop and recognize the small accomplishments we achieve along the path of our greater goals. There’s a saying, the adventure is not the destination it’s the journey.
The entrepreneur should shoot for the stars and dream big. Just make sure you take the time to stop, recognize where you at and optimize what’s currently working for you.
April 11th, 2006 08:23
I think that it really highlights the need to incorporate metrics in at a very early stage — that they should be integral to the system, so when unexpected things happen, they can be identified, quantified, and exploited.
April 12th, 2006 07:31
nothing beats the thrill of the first dollar as you run laughing down the streets shouting “this actually makes money” my mom stills doesnt think i have a “real job”
July 28th, 2006 19:03
Making online money is very exciting, even if your making a few bucks, because you are generating it online, that the fun part.
September 13th, 2006 15:08
I have to agree to Ed, but there is a small problem. When you only make $100/month you cannot drop your job, and you don’t have the financial independency that online money sometimes offer.
I remember my times making $1 and being very proud of that. But in time, you cannot eat and drink from that dollar.
It’s not easy, and it’s time consuming, but if you do it the right way, it will pay tribute in the end.
October 18th, 2006 12:56
I agree with Alex, but hard work always pays of in one way, or the other. If you set yourself with a goal then you can reach it with lots of hard work.
June 17th, 2008 06:22
I completely agree that even $1 earned online is a thrill. It is the result of your own ingenuity, making money out of the thin air of cyberspace. The more you make, the more your confidence increases and you begin to see your financial power apart from the biased judgments of bosses assessing you in a political, bureaucratic atmosphere. It’s highly liberating!