As I remember I saw from Brad’s Sugars DVD – Billionaire in Training, he ask the audience something like this: Which one comes first – Learn or Earn?
In dictionary, YES! Earn comes first. (Notice the letter E comes first before F). But in real life, learn comes first before you earn.
Agree?
What I notice all these while, lots of newbie or even mediocre – most of them always look for the so called ‘shortcut‘ or fast way to gain some dollars from the Internet. They don’t really notice for the long-term result or what I so called a “REAL” business.
For me, real business means long-term relationship and able to repeat again and again the selling process.
From what I aim and what I’m looking for all these while, I will like to look into a big picture. And I love to create something that can last long or long-term business.
Two days ago, I’ve printed out all John Delavera’s blog post. I copy and paste 1-by-1 from his blog and compile them into Words document and then convert into PDF; printed them all out and have it covered into 3-’physical’ books.
Just few minutes ago I finished reading all the books. Wow! It was such an amazing experience! All of them are just GOLD to me. I’m going to re-read it again at least twice and take notes!
I truly honor what and how JD represents himself and the way he explains in all his post. They are just as simple as reading a novel – simple English but yet got deep meaning inside the articles.
He is the true hero. I fully respect him sincerely deep inside from my heart. He has his personal character – which is what we are taught in Turbo Membership. Building a character and find out who we are! And, Live with it… !
He is the one I’ve been looking for, and he might be what you are looking for as well: the long-term and last-long business from the Internet. The turbo membership way!
Not just up and down (instable income) if you know what I mean. For example like Adsense — I’m not sure about you. But what I experienced previously is that I can easily get $10 dollar per day from one site, but then it can suddenly drop until few cents after a short while. Do you have such experience? Comments and share it below please. Thanks in advance!
Mmm…
Maybe this is a bad example I should say…
I might have just done it incorrectly.
But if you can understand what I’m trying to say..
Those Adsense, SEO, etc will not give you a consistent and/or long-term result. The rules of the game might just change anytime (ie. from Google).
Okay. Let’s get back to our topic: Learn before Earn.
If you think you do not know how to HTML, for example, two choices for you: Find one OR learn it. Somehow, I do suggest you to learn it first; or at least got a ‘feel’ for it.
Why?
It is just so simple when you know how.
It can save you lots of money and time either!
Plus, this might be one the most important one (I got the idea from reading JD’s blog): if let’s say you outsource it – if you yourself don’t know how to do it >> how are you going to judge if it’s a good work or not, how are you going to explain to him/her what to do precisely (specific).
If you trust with this sentence as I do very much: You can learn anything! Yes. Anything!
I learn from a book saying something like this:
If you don’t know a particular subject, grab few books about it (or simply google it) — read it at least one hour a day — you’ll be a master on that particular subject within a month. If I’m not mistaken, it was Bryan Tracy who says this.
Today — I know myself that I’m not very good in writing: both copywriting and even write a newsletter or even writing this post.
I tell myself — and of course I take action — ie. printed out all notes I can get — and I will start do the writing.
I start from this blog – as what you are reading it now.
I believe I can be a master (or at least mediocre) of copywriting and/or newsletter within a short period of time.
I believe the key is to be consistent:
“CANI (Constant and Never Ending Improvement)” ~ Tony Robbins.
Last but not least: Learn before you Earn!
P.S. You can find more about John Delavera’s blog at: http://www.johndelavera.com/blog/. After I compile, it is about 256 pages – Tahoma font size 12 single spacing.
P.P.S. I’ve printed out Patric Chan blog either. You can have a look at http://www.internetmarketing-tactics.com/blog/. They are: 100 pages for year 2005, 154 pages for year 2007, and 144 pages for year 2008-2009. For now, I skipped year 2006. 
