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		<pubDate>Sat, 05 Jun 2010 10:38:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Basmajian</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA['There is nothing to fear but fear itself,' as the saying goes, but what if you are actually terrified not of failing but of succeeding in turning into a serious entrepreneur? Entering into any kind of an enterprise has its own sets of risks and rewards, although a lot of folk would never admit that making it is a risk that they are not prepared to take. Success does not only mean fortune and fame ; it also brings with it responsibility and pressure to be consistent.]]></description>
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</script></div><p>There is nothing to fear but fear itself,&#8217; as the saying goes, but what if you are actually terrified not of failing but of succeeding in turning into a serious entrepreneur? Entering into any kind of an enterprise has its own sets of risks and rewards, although a lot of folk would never admit that making it is a risk that they are not prepared to take. Success does not only mean fortune and fame ; it also brings with it responsibility and pressure to be consistent.</p>
<p>Nobody is Perfect</p>
<p>There are folk who argue that they want perfection before success, and that sounds too much like an excuse to be credible, particularly if they don&#8217;t set the standards for what perfection means, nor do they set a cutoff point to achieve it. A lot of top earning marketers have attained their goals without this&#8217;perfection&#8217;, and claiming moral ascendancy over them will not put food on your table.</p>
<p>Everyone will have their good days and bad days, and it is time to tell yourself that it&#8217;s fine to make mistakes. If a customer or buyer makes reasonable complaints, make amends and correct it. Take note of their feedback, and apply it to your later projects. That&#8217;s one additional step to&#8217;perfection&#8217; that you could not make if you hadn&#8217;t put your product out there in the first place.</p>
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<p>Of course it&#8217;s part and parcel of being a serious entrepreneur to learn as much as you can about your craft and to develop your skill, but if everyone spent all their time studying to be something, there&#8217;ll be nobody left to do the real work. Experience is also the best teacher ; how will you know if your product is up to standards, if you don&#8217;t try it out in the market?</p>
<p>The truth is, academic study is a comfort section that some people do not care to venture out from. You do not want to stop improving once your product hits the market. In fact, that is&#8217;s the best way to see what improvements you must make.</p>
<p>A serious entrepreneur should, therefore , be results-oriented : a client or buyer would be happier to see a project that is 80% adequate, than not see a 100% perfect one.</p>
<p>It has been Done Before</p>
<p>How many products have you seen on the market that has been around for some time and will all of a sudden have advertisements that claims&#8217;NEW AND IMPROVED&#8217;? Businesses that work are prepared to take the risk of small successes to get their feet wet and work their way up the market. At the end of the day, the only way to become a serious entrepreneur is to do something. Remember that sloppy success beats perfect mediocrity.</p>
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		<title>Survival Strategies of Serious Entrepreneurs</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:30:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Art Barron</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Serious Entrepreneur, is your life balanced or a balancing act? In business today, it seems we are under greater pressure than ever before. In our quest to be successful, we're working harder and longer just to stay in the race.]]></description>
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<p>Serious Entrepreneur, is your life balanced or a balancing act? In business today, it seems we are under greater pressure than ever before. In our quest to be successful, we&#8217;re working harder and longer just to stay in the race.</p>
<p>It often feels like one huge juggling act.</p>
<p>As internet marketers, we guide and motivate our team members, talk to prospective clients, reply to endless emails and text messages, keep up to date with all the new marketing strategies, promote our campaigns, get bombarded with guru launches that promise to make us richer faster and easierand fit in time for our family and ourselves.</p>
<p>How do those, who survive, then survive without a career burnout?</p>
<p>John Alston, who, as a serious entrepreneur, can understand the problems of serious entrepreneurs as much as anyone can ever, says: &#8220;For some of us, work is our first love, and for those of us struggling to make our businesses work, there are patient and enduring lovers, spouses and children hanging in there with us. For others there are ex-lovers, ex-spouses and alienated children who can and will testify to what you really value.&#8221; He wrote this in the Professional Speaker magazine of January.</p>
<p>Practically no arena of life is free of stress and strain. However, an internet marketing job is a different kettle of fish altogether. Whether you are into it full time or part time, an internet marketing job sucks the juice out of your system. What is left of you is more or less unrecognizable to you yourself. In short, you are at the mercy of your pressure-tension potpourri pretty much round the clock.</p>
<p>All serious entrepreneurs in the world of internet marketing are there because they see their work almost as a vocation, a calling. It is a call of the soul that they cannot resist. Every new challenge is seen by them as an opportunity to rise higher. They simply get drunk on the pleasure of picking up the gauntlet, surmounting the problem, and thereby going another step higher in the success ladder.</p>
<p>But they know when to shut the computer off.</p>
<p>However much they love their work, serious entrepreneurs ensure that internet marketing is not the be all and end all of their lives.</p>
<p>They ensure that they get to spend quality time with their kids and friends and spouses. Serious entrepreneurs would hunt, fish, or scuba dive or whatever it is that stimulates them. Or they may read, paint, or cook, if that is what makes them unwind.</p>
<p>Incorporating entertainments, altruisms, or gym workouts into one&#8217;s schedule is not in fact a time management problem. Each of these facets of life is as important in a man&#8217;s life as the other. Together they maintain the equilibrium of life and make the passion for making money itself worthwhile.</p>
<p>If you find yourself saying, &#8220;I never have enough time to &#8230;&#8221;</p>
<p>Time has to be parceled off to incorporate into one&#8217;s schedule, those things which one enjoys. There are so many things in human life, the vey doing of which is its own reward. These cannot be pigeonholed. It is better to pigeonhole some of the work and find time for these.</p>
<p>Albert Schweitzer said, &#8220;Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.</p>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Mar 2009 08:05:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Tim Mershon</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The power of knowledge is what turns an average person into the go-to guy in their niche. It creates an expert in the field versus a newbie. The more you know and share among your peers the more authority you can establish for yourself, and the more sought after you will become.]]></description>
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<p>The power of knowledge is what turns an average person into the go-to guy in their niche. It creates an expert in the field versus a newbie. The more you know and share among your peers the more authority you can establish for yourself, and the more sought after you will become.</p>
<p>To have a marketing plan that works, it is essential for the entrepreneurs to learn the ins and outs of the business. Taking the time to get informed will prevent losses in profit and save you from using tactics that do not provide a good return.</p>
<p>Knowledge is the most important tool in discovering the most efficient way to market your home based business. To receive both targeted visitors and sales, knowing what drives that traffic is crucial. And good marketing knowledge will ease any possible financial woes when it comes to spending on your internet business.</p>
<p>The challenge for home business marketers is where to find good information. With so many offers to make fast money online it is easy to get sucked in the wrong direction. Without some experience, you have no idea what works and what is garbage. So getting some beginner basics will help you to learn about blogging, email marketing and using newsletters&#8217;.</p>
<p>Below are some places to begin your search for knowledge on internet marketing. Remember that mastering the internet is best learned by doing and using the different tools.</p>
<p>A great way to begin is to find a proven expert that is in a similar business to your own. But before you leap into any one method or expert, do some research and look into other systems as well. Many marketers started out just like you and went through the trials and errors to find what brought the best results.</p>
<p>One of the Internet marketing tools these experts have used is the article directories. From there, you will be able to read hundreds to thousands of articles about Internet marketing. They themselves produced some of these articles; the rest are written by successful Internet marketers yet avoided the fame brought by thousands to millions of dollars on generated revenues. You will be able to pick up some useful information that you can add to your Internet marketing knowledge bank.</p>
<p>There are hundreds to thousands of Internet-marketing websites where you can learn the art of online marketing-from the basics to the complex yet effective strategies used by hundreds to thousands of Internet marketers. Some of these sites are offering free information; however, some of them are selling valuable information for a small fee. Be selective on the Internet marketer you will deal with. Not all information acquired for a fee is effective and valuable.</p>
<p>The easiest way to get the right information is to check around and ask questions before buying any program. Your home based success depends on you first getting the knowledge and then applying to you marketing efforts. If you have some basic understanding before hand, you will avoid any added expenses and unneeded failures.</p>
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