How much time Have you wasted?

All I know is I would never watch a 2 hour sales video.

Wasted a lot of time when i was still young playing video games.

Now i consider playing video games as a reward once i finished my "Must get done" tasks for the day.

Cheers,

Gary

The more you watch such videos, the more you read stuff, the more you buy stuff and read them, the more you will waste time.

Take one course of action, plan about it and implement.

Experience is the best education one can get.

I normally take decision after reviewing about the product and company online.Rather than watching the video for hours.

I watched a lot of videos/tutorials, then decided not to go through with what they offer. Is not necessarily a waste of time or at least I don't consider it. It's good to know what else it out there, I think.

Wasted lots of time browsing and browsing and browsing....
Self discipline is a hard skill to master heh

Too. Damn. Much.

Whenever I plan on launching a website I get distracted with something else and never get around to the launch.

Don't spend too much time thinking. You will get stuck in the cycle. Just create a simple plan and then start working right away before you get stuck in the over-thinking cycle.

At start I followed to many guides, joined too many courses, money started to came in when I sticked to one or two things at a time.

About 2 minutes reading this thread.

You can spend eternity reading and learning new things; however until you don't take action you won't really take a chance to make any money.

I usually compile a list of stuff I want to read, or watch. Then I spend a weekend watching/reading. The bad or repetitive ebooks I skip, and the good ones I watch. Then I sleep on it, and let the new knowledge sink in, and I usually take action on a Tuesday with the best method I read about, or the best tricks/tips I heard.

Hope that helps

Make research. Find reputable coach. Stick to his program and be focused. Forget about all other offers until you get the results you want. Good luck!

instead of thinking that you wasted your time, think of it as learning from your experience.
there is always a lesson in everything that we do.

I can't think of anything which would make me want to spend 2 hours watching a sales video.

My pet hates are:-

1. videos that wont let you fast forward to get to the punch lines, and
2. videos which do not have a written transcript which allows me to do the fast forward equivalent with the written word.

I always find plenty of interesting distractions, but fight hard to keep control of my time.

I wasted a lot of time making mistakes. Then, I decided to learn internet marketing. I did everything the wrong way because I was ignorant but too confident.

Then, I had to deal with many unfair attacks while I still was a newbie. I wasted a lot of time correcting mistakes made by my enemies, which affected me. Then, I wasted a lot of time trying to do many things to market my products without managing to beat all the competition I deal with.

I’m glad because now I’m not making mistakes like I did in the beginning, but by visiting this forum and learning a lot more about internet marketing I understood how ridiculous I still am in many points as a business owner who must know internet marketing because I still don't know many things. I’m still making many mistakes.

I’m trying to improve my email messages but never finding time to finally get organized like I should, there are always more important things to do…

Internet marketing is complicated. Those who tell you that everything is easy make you fall into a very deep trap.

I can tell you that I’ve wasted a lot of time in my life in general terms, but on the other hand I also feel that every minute of my life was important and taught me something.

I must have wasted about 2 months of my life because of watching sales videos that i clearly wasen't going to buy, I get side-tracked easily these days.

I cannot stand the sales pages with just a video on it. Give the video and a written sales page. Sometimes I just don't want to listen to watch a video and would rather read.

2 hours?!?!?!?

crazy!

Just think of how much more time you're going to be wasting watching this thread. :rolleyes:

oh my, i waisted so much time on researching and understanding IM so i´m one of those ladies who tries to now teach it better in an all in one course ;-)
i also watched long sales videos but i don't do anymore because not a SINGLE video actually helped me - it usually just said nothing in a long time. so today i watch a video which might be up to 10 minutes - if at all.
one day i even unsubscribed from all sites because i was so so sick of all these things.

The honesty is refreshing! Many people would have you believe that's all you have to do to make money.

In some sense, everything is part of your evolution as a person, marketer, etc...

If you could reach all of your personal and professional goals in 2 hours, and goal reaching were life's only worthwhile endeavor, then every 2 hour period you spend not reaching your goals is a waste.

But, that's probably not the case.

If you take time to reflect on what you learned during that period of "wasted time", you may have gained some clarification on something that had eluded you, or something you will use in the future.

If you gained nothing else but wisdom, that's SOMEthing.

None of us are masters of our time, and we all find ourselves victims to it.

Just try the best you can, but remember, to have some fun.

I wasted more time more than i wish to remember. Primarily i would wake up everyday and browse other people's websites, read their sales letters, modified my sales letter to match theirs, then invest $20 into PPC. Lol of course i got very little traffic, and i had no idea of how to get free traffic (and didnt even want to do free marketing). Good thing those days are over.

Sorry, i wouldn`t waste those 2 hours watching a sales video. I would rather enjoy the spare time

Personally wasted 2 years. Heck! Other than wasting my time, I have been wasting money too.. Trying to get my hands on those next shining stuffs on clickbank.

Sounds really similar lol Except 7 months compared to your 2 years. Both are a lot of time wasted and it's true procrastination is a huge problem.

i started learning about 'make money online' 5years ago, when you don't have a mentor you are bound to waste alot of time!!

I've wasted 6 years working 9-5 in a job I hate just because everyone around me told be that's the only way to go.

Well, I don't have count of the amount of time I wasted on useless things. I am a perfectionist. I want everything done the way I want, and nothing else would do. I wasted countless hours on plain research. Granted, I learned a lot that way, but if I had spent at least a fraction of that time on just taking pure action, perfection be damned, I'd probably have bought my own house by now.

Oh well, there's no use thinking about things that can't be changed. So, one thing I can advice newbies is, pick something and get to work. Don't worry about whether a method would work or not. Don't wait till you know every nook and corner of that particular method to start doing it.

Learn on the job; that's what I finally decided to do, and it works really well, trust me. Start something, and if you are stuck somewhere, then come back, learn enough to get yourself unstuck and then keep going on.

Learning is good; I still spend time learning new stuff, but now, I make sure my learning time is way less than (only 20% or so) of my doing time.

And, if something does not work out, or if a project does not get you the results you wanted, don't consider it a waste of time. You would have gained valuable experience from it, and that would never go to waste.

For example, I set up 20 blogs in subjects I had zero interest in and spent way more money than I could afford to get content written for those sites (because I had absolutely no interest in those topics), all because I thought they were the best money makers.

I finally gave up on those sites because I couldn't even bring up the interest to edit the articles, but I won't say they were a waste of time. It's a failed project, yes, but it was not a waste of time because I learned a lot from it. I know how to set up blogs in minutes, how to research content for my sites, how to research keywords for my niches, how to promote my sites, and a countless other things because of that one failed projects.

So yeah, as long as you are doing something for your business, you are not wasting your time at all.

wasted my first 3 years.. Was looking for that "best" method without actually put it on practice... and yeahh, those WSOs...

Don't beat yourself up about too much. The internet can be a huge time waster once you get caught up in it. I always catch myself drifting off on different thoughts.

When it comes to IM I also have ADD about it and I want to try a million things. The best advice I can give you is to FORCE yourself to focus on one traffic source and one method until you make it work.

For example, lets say you want to do PoF ads, well... don't stop until you are profitable. Sure you might lose money in the beginning but that is nothing compared to the amount you lose jumping from one thing to other all the time. Some people never break that cycle.