This powerful question is for you. Yes,
YOU! Whether you are an affiliate, merchant, affiliate manager, an SEO or a blogger we want to hear from you!
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Knowing everything you know today,
if you had to start over in your business,
what would you do differently???
Share some tips - Learn some tips.
The answers you share could greatly help others and you can learn something from the answers that get posted as well. An affiliate for instance might share that knowing what they know now, they wish they had focused on a small niche instead of creating a mall site and why. An affiliate manager could share that if they had to start their program over from scratch they would have structured it differently and go into detail about how.
OK here is mine. I will probably add more ideas as I think about it. There are lots of things I would have done differently if I were to start my business over today. My business today is so successful and I feel so blessed to have all the great clients, wonderful affiliates, reputation and traffic I have today. However I can see lots of ways I could have gotten to this level much faster if I had done some things differently.
Knowing what I know today I would have launched my forum 2 years earlier. I wasted too many years posting to, answering questions on and building traffic for other people's forums. People in the 'biz' have told me I should have my own forum for years. Why didn't I launch sooner? To be honest, I just let fear of the set-up, tech issues and spam moderation just hold me back. I basically let myself be frozen by the fear of the unknown. Now that my forum is one year old, it's turned into one of the best decisions I have ever made - even though I started the forum later than I should have. The tech and spam issues were not insurmountable either.
LESSON TO BE LEARNED: Don't let fear of the unknown hold you back from doing something you feel certain would help your business. Contract it out if you have to, but get moving if you are sure it's the right thing.
I hope that this will turn into a rich discussion filled with lessons-learned and tips for success. Share your lessons, false starts or suggestions for doing things better. If you give, you just may get back far more than you thought possible.
I told you mine...
Would you please think about the question and share yours???