Just Keep Swimming

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Finding a Newly Evolved Modus Operandi (NEMO)

You know I could learn a lot from Dory. Her ignorance is a lesson in humility for some of us, and some of her points are as profound as they are ridiculous. I love it, And Ellen you’re a Classic! I chose to think of Dory because quite often when times are tough and we think our efforts are futile and we are slowly going nowhere it’s nice to remind ourselves that all we can do is ‘Just Keep Swimming’

This point has been reinforced by some great business minds in the past, but more prevalent to the situation I am currently in is watching it in action through a blogger I know called James Richmond. James is the Infopreneur and his persistence and business acumen are an inspiration not just for me, but for a whole community of bloggers and entrepreneurs. You should see the way he does it, in fact you can!  by checking out his methodology in his amazing eBook “This is How I do it (Motivated as Hell)” Alexa Rank on steroids – HELLO!

But for now this is a post about me (gratuitous self promotion sorry) and how I am really glad I ‘just kept swimming’ because if I hadn’t then THAT EMAIL wouldn’t have happened!!

I am fairly new to the online business and internet marketing world and as such, the period I am in now is one of mass information overload, a side of confusion and a sprinkling of self doubt. Can I just quickly point out that there is nothing wrong with doubt. Doubt is actually a good thing. It is how you react to doubt that defines you, not whether it exists or not.

Anyway, So I just keep swimming. The hardest thing for me starting out is the lack of confirmation that what I am doing is taking me in the right direction. Granted that’s what taking action is all about, “You Never Never Know if you Never Never Go”, but it’s still nice at the early stage of something new to get that feedback, that pat on the back to say ‘hey, you’re doing good-you’re on the right track’ I am sure I speak for all of us when I say that this is most prevalent in the online marketing world. I mean you are trying to make money online, surely its a scam – it will never work etc etc. Tirelessly they bring us down and tell us they will promise not to laugh too hard when we inevitably fall flat on our faces or ‘grow tired of the scam’, but in the words of the infamous Ned Kelly  “Such Is Life” and so we just Keep Swimming.

And then Success Swam into me.

THAT EMAIL that I refer to was a timely little ‘pat on the back’ and was one of the first WOW moments I have had since I started this online venture! What it was quite simply was an email from the Marketing Executive of an International Company that I was promoting on one of my sites. The email basically stated the following:

“ One of my marketing exec.’s saw your site. Your site is clean and easy to navigate. Who is your supplier? You are missing a few images of our product line up (I could not for the life of me find them anywhere as they are yet to be released) I can help you with that.  Let me know if you are interested in promoting us directly?”

Yours Truley – Mr X, Marketing Executive XXXXX International

Now I have kept the details of the company hidden since this is my first possible online business connection and so I don’t want to mar it in any way, but the point is not the content of the email, or who the company in question is. The point is that I just Kept Swimming and as a result – good things came my way. And Hey, it’s good to know that as far as my minisite business model goes, I am on the right track – legally AND ethically.

Oh, and in keeping with the tangible metaphor I started with, Being Motivated as Hell is important, but being Unique is KEY so make sure you are swimming against the stream. Only dead fish swim with it!

So How do you do it? Are you Motivated as Hell?

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