Comments on: Q & A

By: Stefanie

Stefanie — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 22:18:40 +0000

I used to be guilty of this, too - especially in the beginning. In the real world, you study and study until someone finally tells you that you’re ready, either through graduation, promotion, or some kind of verbal instruction. Online, you need to teach yourself the basics and run with it. The rest can work itself out once you get going.

By: A.S.Pardesi

A.S.Pardesi — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 09:18:31 +0000

Hi Scott,

The sweet buzzword suggestion will be rather than “doing correct things” is to “to do things correctly”. SEO optimization is beating about the bush. If you do most of the things which are done correctly (i mean the way SEO wants it to be and not the way we want it to be) then I do not think you will have to think all about that tonnes of information. We need to concentrate on what is expected than what we think. Hope this helps.

By: Joey

Joey — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 18:21:01 +0000

I currently spend more time reading than doing. I set some goals for myself for last weekend but I found a new forum and a blog I liked so I spent more time there than actually working on my sites. Arrrgghhhh…..

I need to set myself on a schedule for reading. I think the 30 minutes you mentioned would be enough. Especially since I get about 30 at lunch to read too.

By: Siberia

Siberia — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 13:30:32 +0000

I will get one YES or purchase in maybe 100+ emails/contacts

Thats been an insightful comment for me, its brought home the reality of work needed. SSMs can sometimes come off as making it all look so easy, purely because the info is being written about past tense so its great to see this balance. Nobody would read a blog that talked about all the dull roadblocks the SMM crew must go through every day and how hard they keep plugging away BUT it would certainly keep our feet on the ground.
Great answers thanks!
and, Information overload is crippling for many of us!

By: Justin Cook

Justin Cook — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 12:36:36 +0000

Scott,
while I agree that SMM is something of a mentoring service, it would still be very valuable for people to be able to throw specific questions at you.

I get them all the time, even though the information is readily available.

There was a service that allowed you to charge per minute for consultation over Skype. Maybe you should consider it!

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 16:19:27 +0000

That surely answers some of the common questions we have in our minds.

By: Nigel

Nigel — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 14:51:10 +0000

Great post Scott. I have to say, SMM has been an inspiration, and posts like this are what keep me plugging away (and keep me on track).

By: John Essex

John Essex — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 13:10:06 +0000

Got to agree with Mikael - it’s all to easy to spend your time reading about this stuff and not enough time ‘doing’. I try to spend a little bit of time each day actually doing something, no matter how small. For example writing a new article, I might only write a paragraph each day, but by the end of the week I have a complete article. Bear in mind I’m part time working on my websites so it’s that little bit harder to find time!

By: Mikael

Mikael — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:24:14 +0000

I could have written most of these questions. I can be really difficult to not fall into a situation of information overload. If you’re into personal development you’ll know that you keep hearing that “the book you don’t read won’t help” etc. which can result in nothing but reading and no action.

I think it is something that you’ll need to learn on your own. You need to learn not to take in too much information and you need to learn to focus. There might be people that have an easy time focusing on one thing but I know that we are many that find it hard.

Luckily the results speak for themselves. It is clear that if you focus and act for even a small amount of time (e.g. 30 days) you will see substantial inprovement compared to the previous 30 days where you did as usual.