Archive for August 19th, 2009

I admittedly declare to be a distracted entrepreneur and it’s largely due to brilliant Internet Marketers.

I have recently unsubscribed from all but one Internet Marketer because I have become numb to their emails, and usually just delete them anyway. Don’t get me wrong … I subscribed to them and believed them to be of value but I just don’t have time to be distracted all the time.

You see … the IM world is great at creating such buzz around their product launches and such that it makes people like me want to buy them, thus propagating further distractions to the tune of never getting anything done because next week will bring another brilliant program.

The tipping point was reached today when I was reviewing some of the emails I get from well known names in the IM market, and I realized the programs had nothing to do with WHY I originally subscribed to their emails. That, in my opinion is abuse of my email and is worthy of an unsubscribe. As an example, I had subscribed to an email list about social media and after looking back at the many emails I received from this person only about a third of them contained anything relevant to social media, and most were solicitations of some format.

From here on out I have decided if I am to have any chance of success, I must weed out anything that can distract me and pull me off track. This is very difficult for me to do, as I feel like I’m shutting myself out, or closing myself off to information I may be interested in. However, it has to be done and I wonder if any of he IM’rs ever consider how many people they are pulling off course only to keep them in an endless cycle of failure.

I’m not blaming my problems on others as I am aware we have choices, but I don’t need to make it easy for others to pull me off course, therefore I have just made my choice.

… Scott