Biggest Mistake in your IM Career

[Deleted member 755860]

my biggest mistake was using odesk and hiring people from india who didn't know and still won't ever know how to build backlinks

 

[oldwhitehat]

Good thread.

#1 not adapting sooner to changing conditions. (Try to think 1-2 years ahead not 1-2 years in the past!)
#2 being lazy, complacent.
#3 Keeping working on something even though it's not working or getting better.
#4 Completely giving up on some things when I should have leveraged them for some returns

 

[KHMNTCPR8]

****Getting lazy when getting "successful".****

Made around $360k last year, and as of right now I'm worried about how I'm going to be able to keep paying for my bomb ass house and keep living on my own. HAHA, but its all part of learning. You go up and you go down, but you keep going and eventually you get the hang of it! I'm looking forward to getting hungry again actually; it makes me very creative and hardworking.

 

[OMBbro]

insanity I like this topic! great advice here! so much so I did a YouTube video on it. My worst experience in IM is in the video. check it out

 

[dondada7]

I used to have ideas then buy domains then spend a week creating the website only to realize its not going to work out like I thaught

 

[WizGizmo]

My biggest mistake was back in the mid-90's, at the start
of the DotCom revolution. I should have thought up and
bought up a bunch of killer domain names. I remember
some guy who sold business.com for 6 million dollars.

 

[bananaman5000]

my biggest mistake has been scaling too quickly once i find something that works. if you are doing anything remotely blackhat, you need to scale slowly and know when to stop. some grey/blackhat things have a size limit before they draw too much attention to themselves. if i would have stayed smaller and off the radar, i'd still have 2 business today making 30k/year each.

 

[Martin1971]

Looking all day to my saving acount how much money was coming in, counting money all day, looked more to my backacount then to my website........

 

[Martin1971]

, i'd still have 2 business today making 30k/year each.

I had one website, making 30k a month, counting money all day and forgot the website, result... google penaly 30k a month ... gone, damn big mistake.

 

[BenWalters]

I started a YouTube series where I gave dating advice to women 0_0

haahhaha

 

[madoctopus]

Mistakes are opportunities for great lessons. The more you make, the more you learn

 

[TheRealRazzy]

Getting too complacent.

 

[ciganluk]

Spending time & money on getting a degree.

 

[AlphaCodeNX]

getting greedy...

 

[Nuklearedm]

Jumping method to method

 

[linuxsmtp]

being lazy........