I am working on my first product launch, and hope to take your steps, by quiting my job.

Also, you may want to look into what’s called “The Spiral Model” of software development. There are like dozens of different theories/models for developing/releasing software. By far, I have found that the spiral model works the best for “real life” progress in every area of like, not just software development. In fact, WordPress is an example of the spiral model in action. The idea is to go through the absolute fastest cycle to get “Prototype 1″ finished of something, so that it begins to produce some kind of result “out there”. While that’s done, you work on Prototype 2, which is a better version of Prototype 1. And you keep going down that path. Life isn’t exactly a software development project, but if you understand the phylosophy behind the Spiral Model you’ll see the genius within it, as opposed to “The Waterfall” model for example or others.

Another way to think of it is that you should look at the “imperfection” of trying to follow a “perfect” strategy online. If the “perfect” strategy to being successful online is not to attempt to do any one thing “perfectly” because that creates unnecessary delays, then by trying to do any one thing “perfectly”, you are in effect screwing up the “perfection” of the overall strategy itself. Does that make sense?

You’re trying to fight the “perfect battle” but losing the war.

Great job on your YouTube channel. I myself am fretting because someone is squatting on my name (I was certain I was the only Jonathan *Timar* in the world, really!) and it’s driving me bonkers that I can’t have it. I don’t know if it’s better to setting for a secon rate username, or use viddler, for instance. I am greatly bother by the fact that I could be confused with this other person, considering that I am the jonathantimar that on almost every other social media platform, but someone else is jonathantimar on yourtube.
.-= Jonathan´s last blog ..Fort Steele General Store And Post Office =-.

#1 – People making a TON of money online don’t need to give you ALL of their secrets. They just need to share some of their secrets with you and I have consistently found that the top Internet marketers out there give away a lot of their secrets. There is a common misconception that once you learn a way to make money online that you need to hide it from people. In most cases people are way too lazy to ever actually take any action to follow a method even if you do give away your secret. Secondly, there are so many niches and sub-niches on the Internet that it is the application of the techniques that is taught, not the specific niche.

There is so much abundance on the Internet it’s almost overwhelming. In the last 5 days alone I have learned 3 totally different ways I could make $10,000/m online doing totally different things. They’re all legitimate ways of making money online, but each requires an investment of time and energy and I don’t have a way to clone myself 50 times (yet ). Also, just because there is a way to make money online, it doesn’t mean someone will follow it. A lot of times people only follow those methods that excite them and that they consider fun.

#2 – Time is absolutely an investment. That is why I am increasingly resorting to buying experience instead of wasting my time with it. Here’s an example. I have been recently getting into learning about SEO and article marketing. After trying to do things by trial and error, I decided last night to purchase two courses on article marketing. Total cost for both was about $100. I finished going through the first course last night, and just ONE piece of information within it will already save me about 3h/week in labor that I no longer need to do. That is amazing to me. And there is about 500 little “nuggets of gold” within that course.

No, not every $10 eBook is worth $10. Some are crap, but a LOT of them are really good. Also, don’t forget – every eBook or course I buy online always comes with a MINIMUM of a 30 day money back guarantee. So just buy them, and if you don’t like it return it! It’s really easy. I have never had a problem getting a refund on a product I bought online that offered a guarantee. I’ve had a tougher time returning an item at Bestbuy than online.

If your time was worth $1,000/hour how much is a $10 investment in an ebook anyways? Or a $2,000 in a course? If it saves you 2h of trial and error it’s already paid for itself.

Also, the main point of this article wasn’t so much to encourage people to buy all these courses. I was just mentioning that I bought them and learned an important lesson – which is that you need to systemize, automate and outsource!

I fought it for so long, but now I see how important it is.