Re: The Mind Virus | ProfitHacks

Earl Sondreal — Wed, 07 Nov 2012 22:35:02 -0000

Hi Rich,

Excellent video - it's almost as if you have been looking over my shoulder for the past few years. I would have to say that I'm guilty of all three, Paralysis, the Wheel, and the Wall.

Don't get me wrong, I have had some big successes in internet marketing over the years. I've had the occasional $30,000 month in CPA offers, and the $7,500 months in Adsense (right before Penguin), but these successes are always short-lived and usually end up as a throw-away business after Google changes their algorithm.

Basically, my internet businesses have earned me just enough to survive, but leave me always worried that I will need to go back to the daily grind of working myself to death building someone else's empire.

So while I do have some revenue now, I have been stuck in Paralysis mode wondering what to do next: should I scale what I'm doing now? Should I jump on the Social Media band wagon? Or, should I start a new search based niche? But fears of Pandas and Penguins have made the prospect of building an empire that relies on Google a scary notion.

So as you mentioned in the video, I buy more training courses-hoping to find one that is likely to work and be a long-term money maker. The truth is, by watching the endless streams of training videos, I'm actually fooling myself into thinking that I'm "working." After all, constant education is always good for business, right? ...Wrong.

Most of us know that outsourcing is something that we MUST do, yet it always seems like it's that one thing that we're not quite ready to do yet. The few times that I have outsourced smaller projects, the results were usually very good, but the thought of a full or part time VA is still a little overwhelming. I don't know why- it just is.

I am beyond ready to break out of the traps of Paralysis, the Wheel and the Wall and I can tell you with confidence that my life will be much better after I have outsourced the parts of my business that I don't love doing. The idea of ONLY doing the parts of my business that I LOVE doing sounds like heaven to me. I love to put in a solid work day, but I can't wait to start my next venture that is based on efficiency, passion, and smart business systems.

Basically, what I'm saying is: you have my attention, and I can't wait to hear more of your great ideas about how to vaccinate against the multiple MIND Viruses that I have been incubating over the years.

I can't wait to hear more!

Re: SEM vs SEO: Clarification Needed

Earl Sondreal — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 13:52:27 -0000

No problem -Thanks for the great content.

I re-discovered a cool heat map that shows the percentage of clicks that each position gets in an organic search engine results page - it really reminded me how important it can be to get those top 4 or 5 positions! I thought others might enjoy checking it out:

http://www.seoresearcher.co...

Re: SEM vs SEO: Clarification Needed

Earl Sondreal — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 02:10:04 -0000

Gabriella,

Great job on describing the differences between SEM and SEO. I would also add that SEO usually involves more "under the hood" changes to a web site, such as fixing up title tags, description tags, keyword tags, page targeting, site linking structure and other on-page factors. SEM focuses more on link building, advertising and other off-page factors.

Thanks!

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