You wouldn’t ask a plumber for advice if you had a toothache would you?
So then why would you listen to someone’s advice on making money when they haven’t made any?
It just doesn’t make sense does it? But I get it all the time: “So and so told me not to get involved with this and that because they said it won’t work”.
Worryingly the usual suspects are normally those of your closest family and friends.
Now I’m sure they try to mean well but unfortunately they are just misguided in their efforts or just plain wrong; unless of course they have extensive special experience that can be helpful to you or they have already shown they are successful entrepreneurs and you know from past experience that they are supportive of your ideas.
But that’s rarely ever the case.
Unless you choose very carefully, your “expert” may have absolutely nothing from which to base their opinion about your idea, even if they are successful in their own profession.
How much do your friends and family know about Internet Marketing? Or what it takes to pull in over £70,000 a month? Think about it.
I’ve experienced this first hand from my own parents. Mum would always tell me to be ‘realistic’ whenever I shared with her my dream one day of being extremely wealthy and retiring at 30.
The conversation would invariably end with them telling me to ‘stop dreaming’ and concentrate on getting a good education.
It wasn’t that they weren’t supportive of me, they just didn’t want me to ever be disappointed and that was their way of protecting me as parents do. They didn’t know any better.
But here’s the problem. You won’t find a teacher arriving at school with a £100,000 car -and it’s more likely that they own a semi-detached (with a mortgage) then a £1 million pound penthouse. They work 9 to 5 with someone always telling them what to do but these are the people who are teaching us?
I remember visiting my branch manager when I first started out in Internet Marketing. He simply could not understand how self employment worked, they’re just not on the same wave length, and it’s completely alien to them because they get a pay packet every month regardless of how they perform – unless of course they’re sacked.
So why then would we seek advice from them when they have no real experience of business in the real world?
In fact my bank manager actually suggested to me not to get involved with Internet Marketing as he could not see it as a ‘viable business’
Here’s someone with absolutely no experience of running a home based business telling another person they shouldn’t start the business of their choosing. This manager had never operated a home based business, never earned a million pounds and has no concept of financial freedom – because he won’t ever experience it unless he gives up his job.
So how the hell can he give business advice? Think about it.
We have the freedom to choose and yes it’s good to listen to the advice of other people – but ONLY when they KNOW through hands on experience, what they are talking about. Like I said earlier, it’s much like asking your plumber for advice on your bad tooth.
If you only wanted to know how to live an ordinary life, by that I mean the usual of living in a semi on a housing estate with 2.5 kids and a couple of holidays a year to Benidorm and maybe a company car then expect sound advice from a bank manager. He knows exactly how you can reach such levels.
And that’s because of course it’s pretty much what a manager’s life is like.
But also consider the lifestyle of other people whom you might choose to seek advice from. Are they living the lifestyle of a bank manager or the lifestyle you aspire to?
Going back to teachers for a minute, consider what they teach us. We are driven to get good grades, go on to take further education, maybe university so we can get decent qualifications.
Why? To get a good job (and good grades doesn’t even guarantee that these days)
Then for the next umpteen years we should strive for a promotion in our chosen careers we until we reach the top…then retire at 65 if you’re a woman and 70 if you’re a man. And for a few more years, we can collect a pittance in pension…if there’s anything left in the kitty by then that is.
That is unless you break away from the system.
So the bottom line is this: Be careful who you seek advice from, remember free advice is worth exactly what you paid for it.
If you have a toothache – speak to your dentist.
And if you want to make money from YourNetBiz? I’ll speak to you soon.