Comments on: Mid-lining: Why Shooting for “OK” Gives You Incredible Results

By: CaseyFronczek

CaseyFronczek — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 14:46:10 +0000

I saw that Casey Fronczek is offering fishing trips now down in south Florida. Does anybody have any input on these trips or has anyone been on one of these trips before?

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Sun, 26 Apr 2009 06:58:19 +0000

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By: Ruthan Brodsky

Ruthan Brodsky — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 16:03:50 +0000

As a freelance writer, I understand what Dave is saying. If I waited for an article to be perfect off the get go, it would never get writen. The first draft is a 1, the send maybe a 3 and on occasion I get to a 7 or 8 with more edits. At the same time, each next article is written just a little bit better because I've learned from the previous one I wrote. Ruthan Brodsky's last blog post..Stay Healthy: Prevent Alzheimer's Part 2

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Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:35:38 +0000

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By: Mike Davenport

Mike Davenport — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 02:22:40 +0000

Good post, a thought though . . .

Going from a “2″ to a “3″ may just take a small amount of work, as going from a “3″ to a “4″ may also.

Yet as you progress up the scale, and get closer in altitude to an “8″ or a “9″ the effort required to make the same step as “3″ to “4″ is much greater.

Using an example of climbing Everest (which I have not personal done, but have read a lot about), the effort to go from 15,000 feet to 20,000 feet ( a 5000 feet rise in elevation) pales in comparison to the effort required to go from 28,000 feet to 28,5000 (a 500 foot rise in elevation).

Seems like the closer you get to the top, the more effort it takes for the last remaining steps.

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By: Karl Staib - Work Happy Now

Karl Staib - Work Happy Now — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 20:00:12 +0000

“It doesn’t take long to get to a 4.” Yes! That’s what I’m talking about. We get tied down by what we think is a big deal when in reality we just spend 5 – 10 hours on SEO and bam we have double the traffic.

I’ll admit that I’ve been guilty of this, but I’m working on changing these habits, by taking baby steps. I’ve slowly incorporated social media in to my life and now I get a good deal of my traffic from it for my blog.

I’m taking Dave’s advice and going to learn a little more about SEO to help my site out. Thanks Dave!

Karl Staib – Work Happy Now’s last blog post..Pig-Headed Determination and Discipline

By: Sonia Simone

Sonia Simone — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 02:45:29 +0000

@Amy, I’ve got one more recommendation for you (and thank you, Dave!), go to http://ittybiz.com and find the link for Marketing School, and copy all those posts into a Word doc. (She’ll be taking them down some time soon, so don’t delay.) There’s a whole bunch of great free advice there. I can also recommend Dan Kennedy’s book The Ultimate Marketing Plan. (But don’t buy his other more expensive stuff yet, you’re a ways from being able to profit from it. 90% of the value is in the $14 book.)

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By: Tzaddi

Tzaddi — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:46:26 +0000

This is a good reminder for folks like me who tend to struggle with perfectionism at times

Another benefit of getting to know the basics of something is that you’ll get more out of it when you do hire an “expert”. You’ll be able to talk to them with more ease, learn more in the process, and have a better spidey sense of whether they actually know their stuff, than if you knew absolutely nothing about it.

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By: Stephen Hopson

Stephen Hopson — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:16:21 +0000

Hey, that was pretty good – like the others, I had never heard of “mid-lining” things. Very interesting.

It’s true that if you just expend just a little extra time in learning something new, you could improve the bottom line appreciably. You’re right that many of us (myself included) assume that we have to be “experts” to take our business or whatever it is we’re doing to the next highest level when nothing could be further from the truth.

Granted, it does take a little extra time but like you said, most of us don’t expend that extra time and energy to learn something new because our minds think we have to be incredible experts so we do nothing.

The example you gave was a very common one. Everyone has experienced what they did (or didn’t do) at one time or another. Even me.

An example would be when I was blogging at Blogger.com. I stayed there for a year and a half until I began feeling the itch to move up to Wordpress. For the longest time, I was aghast at the prospect of making such major changes and learning a few things along the way. So what did I do?

I stayed at Blogger.com for a little while longer – until the day I made a firm decision to do it. That’s when it all changed. I’m grateful I finally forced myself to learn a bit more about WP themes, platform choices, FTP choices, etc. Looking back I see that it was all worth it.

Thanks for an inspiring post! You certainly rock my friend.

Stephen Hopson’s last blog post..How I Will NOT Lose 20 lbs. in 30 Days: Follow Up Week #4

By: James | Dancing Geek

James | Dancing Geek — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:10:41 +0000

@Amy Crook – try asking the people who’s advice seems to be a little off. Sometimes they’re focussing on one area because that’s what they were asked about but they’d actually really prefer to talk to you about your problem because it’s so much more interesting to them.

This comes from a real life situation – I’m not just making this up.

Email someone and see what happens – good luck!

@Karen/Dave – whilst being a 10 gives you the expertise level that people will feel so much more confident with, I think being unique can actually come from the unique combination of 6’s that you have. At least that’s what I’m banking on, I guess – how many Dancing Geek’s do you know?!