It’s a good story, but definitely stolen from the Will’s Wisdom video that was viral on Youtube. Just saying……

Thank you for the feedback Nathan,
Awesome article indeed and a fantastic strategy to keep in mind for sure.

I’ve been following Jared around for a while and his message or his big thing is: do the work once, turn it in to a system, than outsource it.

Konrad

This article from Jarad ranks among one of the best topics I’ve read in many months. The bricklayer analogy sums up the essential characteristic required to create any business that is going to weather the storms and the droughts. As a new affiliate marketer who has been building my online business, I’d unconsconiously applied the bricklayer mentality toward building my online business. GREAT ARTICLE!

Hi Mike,
Excellent thoughts.
It appears almost everyone gets stung a time or two when starting out online. Unfortunately some people make a living doing it!
The reality though is that people who sell empty promises continually have to look for new customers to lure in to their traps. If you run a real, honest, and solid business however, you can count on the same customers over and over and over again. As Jim Rohn would say:

There are pennies in a sale, but fortunes in the followup.

Have a fantastic weekend,
Konrad

There is an old expression “Beware of Greeks Bearing Gifts” now to any Greeks reading this, the expression dates back to ancient history it is in no way a contemporary comment!!!! I have been stung twice. My problem really was that I was like the moth attracted to the bright light – but hey I didn’t know any better! Over time, however, you develop a very valuable skill and that is sorting the wheat from the chaff; recognising those with integrity and empathy and those facile, self centered individuals with no integrity.

But the parable of building the brick wall is right. I was a CEO in the traditional world and really the basic requirements of building an IM business are the same as a traditional business: If you place every brick in the correct position with the right amount of mortar, you don’t have to worry or keep looking back to see if the wall is going up OK. Cut corners, get a bit slack with your technique and that will be a weak spot that could undermine the strength of the whole wall. Hhhhhmm….why did some people suffer in the Google “Panda Slap”????? I was concerens as anyone but I was relieved to find that some of my older sites had a wee boost.

One last thought – I often wonder why I couldn’t have found the “real people” like Konrad and others right at the start, instead of going through the crap at the start. Perhaps my start was a sort of apprenticeship, giving me a perspective that would let me recognise or be drawn to the good guys!

Cheers