How career minded are we REALLY?
We tell ourselves that we are serious about making a success of our home business opportunity. We spend hours searching for the latest marketing trick to attract visitors to our website. We convince ourselves that if we had enough leads and enough prospects that we would succeed in generating customers or distributors or affiliates for our business.
We tell ourselves that if we could generate enough income then we would become full time networkers. We would then belong to the professional networker elite.
Now correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't a successful career start with a good education and apprenticeship in most walks of life?
And we all reply yes, of course. But where can you find a good education in networking? Sure, there are plenty of offers out there for professional coaching & training programs, but they cost an arm and a leg. And at the end of the day what did we really learn? So there are plenty of excuses (sorry, reasons) why a good education is just outside our reach.
So the question I am asking myself is "How career minded are we really?". I mean, would we really be prepared to educate ourselves if the equivalent of a university education for networkers was there for the taking?
Let me make this question really easy:
"If there was a university offering free education to students who wanted to educate themselves and graduate as professional networkers, would you follow such an education?"
Think about it and let me have your comments (and TOP'ings).
By now you should be discovering just how career minded you REALLY are... :-)
Share one thing that a good education will do for me:
To begin with you will never advertise your business (affiliate) link ever again! It took me a long time to learn this one simple lesson. Well, there is such a thing as "the exception to the rule" and "never say never". So I guess that I will treat my own advice flexibly in the years to come :-).
Try out my ads and links on this web page and you will understand what I mean.
You will learn to appreciate the importance of promoting yourself and your team first, and only then introducing your business. It's basic human psychology. We are social beings and we choose to do business with people we enjoy spending time with.
So you build the personal relationship first and foremost. The business relationship will follow in due course.
Do I "walk the talk" here at Apsense?
Well, I do my best.
If you enjoy what I write here, then you will probably read some of my other blogs, or click on my ads on this page, or visit my profile and take a closer look at my business center.
You may even decide to drop me a line and introduce yourself and who knows where we will go from there... provided you don't start by shoving your business down my throat :-)
We tell ourselves that if we could generate enough income then we would become full time networkers. We would then belong to the professional networker elite.
Now correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't a successful career start with a good education and apprenticeship in most walks of life?
And we all reply yes, of course. But where can you find a good education in networking? Sure, there are plenty of offers out there for professional coaching & training programs, but they cost an arm and a leg. And at the end of the day what did we really learn? So there are plenty of excuses (sorry, reasons) why a good education is just outside our reach.
So the question I am asking myself is "How career minded are we really?". I mean, would we really be prepared to educate ourselves if the equivalent of a university education for networkers was there for the taking?
Let me make this question really easy:
"If there was a university offering free education to students who wanted to educate themselves and graduate as professional networkers, would you follow such an education?"
Think about it and let me have your comments (and TOP'ings).
By now you should be discovering just how career minded you REALLY are... :-)
Share one thing that a good education will do for me:
To begin with you will never advertise your business (affiliate) link ever again! It took me a long time to learn this one simple lesson. Well, there is such a thing as "the exception to the rule" and "never say never". So I guess that I will treat my own advice flexibly in the years to come :-).
Try out my ads and links on this web page and you will understand what I mean.
You will learn to appreciate the importance of promoting yourself and your team first, and only then introducing your business. It's basic human psychology. We are social beings and we choose to do business with people we enjoy spending time with.
So you build the personal relationship first and foremost. The business relationship will follow in due course.
Do I "walk the talk" here at Apsense?
Well, I do my best.
If you enjoy what I write here, then you will probably read some of my other blogs, or click on my ads on this page, or visit my profile and take a closer look at my business center.
You may even decide to drop me a line and introduce yourself and who knows where we will go from there... provided you don't start by shoving your business down my throat :-)
Comments (36)
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Hi Titan.
Top left of every article you will see a blue square with a TOP'it link :-)
Titan
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That was actually very interesting. I don't know how to TOP you. Let me know how and I definitely will.
Kirk
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I think an education on internet marketing is a great idea. It is not as easy as many think when they first start in this adventure. I have been around for a little bit in this business, and I am sure I know the tip of the iceberg of knowledge that is out there. An educational course going on the basics would be great. Everything survives on the basics in this world.
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There are different levels of education, especially for internet marketers. Which of the following two examples would you rank as the higher level of education?
1) Learning how to drive more traffic to your website;
2) Learning that there is more to building a successful and lasting business than just having a website that ranks high in Google
For an internet marketer these days to try building his/her business offline is the equivalent of taking a walk on the wild side.
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Interesting standpoint "having more pofessionals than jobs is a problem". This sounds more like an opportunity to me :-)
Education is not about whether there are enough jobs out there for you when you graduate. Education is about opening your heart, eyes and mind to new possibilities, learning to see and experience the world around you through different eyes and new perspectives, its about creativity and imagination shaping the circumstances of the future. You don't accept the jobs as they are,
Iwan J.
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Internet Marketer
Hi Inaki,
The education is needed when you want to grow up your business, unless you succeed before, but you have to learn how to get a traffic more and more to your site. So that your business never stuck in bottom line position. I suppose you to try google webmasters, they will be teach you step by step.
Best rgds,
Iwan Jamez
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Wise words in the comments below about learning the correct steps and a willingness to learn and a realisation that some guidance is required along the way.
Diana in her earlier comment is correct when she says that I am brewing up something and that it is free of charge. In fact I am doing that with a number of very experienced networkers around the world, covering many countries and over 10 languages.
If you want to know more then you can contact me through the "It takes two to tango" ad. An
Raylene Murray-Macgr...
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Hi Inaki
I am very new to internet business. In my past experience of employment over the years, I have always started from the bottom to the top, and it is over these years I have mastered the job of my choice.
I have found with this business, it is so easy to dive in and pay for something you do not know about, because of the advertising hype.
Currently I am reading the 10 steps to success to try and avoid SCAMS in this world and networking my business for free for starters, until I
Rosemary Nettleton
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Hi Inaki,
I started in internet marketing about 3 months ago and although I have manged to learn a great deal
I do realise now that there is a huge amount more to master and I, like many other need guidance in order to learn the correct steps.
Kind regards
Rosemary
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Hi guys. Thanks for your comments.
And Indrit you are right. You can educate yourself with the wealth of information available on the internet. But there is a reason for having coaches and teachers and trainers and mentors who have dedicated many years to gain experience and share their learnings with others.
Is it not the duty of a father to teach the son, so that the son can go on to reach higher levels. is that not what evolution is about, learning together, bonding together as a team and a
Indrit Shkodra
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You are probably right, but you know best things in life are free. You have such a free university like google and don't need any other.
I started deep studies this month for learning programming language such as php, and I think don't need university for that, can handle myselff.
Or you could use this as an extra income.
Diana Harvey
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entrepreneur
Hi Inaki,
Your statement below.
Now correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't a successful career start with a good education and apprenticeship in most walks of life?
Is absolutely 100% correct and applies even more so to networking where everyone and their dog want and think that they can make a living.
I do not know whether some madness takes hold of the people who want to become network marketers or what but they believe these adds it is so easy you can do it in your PJ's
Folks you are so
Robert Phillips
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Marketing
Hi Iñaki
Just like in other business in this world people need to be shown how to do it.
You wouldnt let a doctor do a Operation on you if he didnt go to school to learn how.
The biggest mistake I see in network marketing people jump into a business without knowing how to market it.
Without leads or traffic to your website or business you will fail bottom line.
I've spent thousands of dollars on my education in online marketing and teach people how to do that first.
Its very importan
Kristjan Sigurjonsso...
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Hi Inaki,
As for myself, I acclaim it, and look at it as a breakthrough, and jump on it instantly. It is a marvelous opportunity for all of us. I acclaim it, and look at it as a breakthrough, and jump on it instantly. It is a marvelous opportunity for all of us.