Affiliate Darwinism - Survival of the Smartest

Stupid is as stupid does. When it comes to blogging, I am sure you would agree with me that if you follow the bad advice of others, you will end up in the trash heap of someones success. Seems plausible. Doesn’t it?

Now here is a leap I bet you won’t take … If you follow good advice you will end up in exactly the same place. You will be watching from the sidelines in ignorant bliss saying “This should be me” to yet another success story that plays out like a broken record deep within your physce.

Even though you won’t admit it, I bet you have been described accurately in the above paragraph. I doubt that you will admit it publicly as it would be a tad self-degrading. Perhaps even admitting it to yourself may be degrading, but you are only degrading yourself if you don’t step up to the plate and take charge of your blogging life and start thinking for yourself.

Too many people spend too much time following others advice. Sometimes we have to use our own brains and think for ourselves. Everyone will jump on any bandwagon and run with it just to try and make a buck or two.

We hear things such as ‘Do this’ or Don’t do that’ to be successful, but when you follow someone else’s self-serving advice on a continuous basis where does it get you? Deeper in debt? Filled with anguish? Pissed off at yourself and the world? Ready to quit?

So now that I have ripped you out a new one what do I do? Well how about this for an ironic twist of fate … You need to follow, you guessed it, the advice of a Mad Ape for a few minutes. When done following my advice never follow anyones again…EVER. That’s right EVER.

Advice is only an opinion and opinions are like assholes…everyone has one, and in the competitive blogging world everyone is trying to make their mark. The people that provide the advice are the ones making the money. While you spend everyday surfing the web trying to learn how to make your mark, the so-called gurus are cashing in and in a big way too.

I could go into a big long rant and give names of people who have others flocking to their sites for their advice and opinions but why bother. The people going there to seek their fortune are clueless lemmings. Ready to jump of the first cliff and plunge into the deep dark cesspool of the blogging abyss.

I really do not care what other blogs say or do. I only care what I say and do. And you should too. No not me twit…you should care about you. Man it is hard knocking this into your thick cranium.

From this moment forward, I want you to go. Leave. Go away. Grab a notepad and jot down where you want to be in 5 years. Now write down, step-by-step, what you are going to do to get there. Not just some Mickey Mouse BS job either. You need to use color-coded flowcharts to make this easy to follow. I want you to record each step on a daily basis making each successive step build on the previous. You know like day 1. Decide on my niche. Day 2 Establish a target audience. Day 3 Marketing Plan etc … Get the picture? … Good. So now you need to get busy with this as you have to plan for the next 1825 days of your life.

Once complete you need to refer back to your notes and write a daily follow-up showing how you stayed on your track to success. I would recommend using a journal. It would be best to write it all on paper then follow it up with a digital version. Perhaps you could keep a track using a daily blog entry on a separate private blog. This will help keep you focused.

Now go on. Get! Scoot! You have a lot of work to do if you want to be the next dot com mogul.

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