Posts Tagged new media

1. Most people would rather passively read and watch other people’s ideas than write down or speak out their own.
2. Most people would rather criticize other people’s ideas than submit their own ideas to criticism.
3. Most people want to second-guess their writings or their videos and hit “delete” before posting the final product to their website.
4. Most people can’t quite finish things.
5. Most people want the instant gratification of a video “going viral” or a blog posting receiving 5,000 comments within the first 48 hours and then give up when it doesn’t happen.
6. Most people want to see an immediate return on investment or large audience within the first week/month/6 months of blogging and give up when it doesn’t happen.
7. Most people have every intention of blogging twice a day/week/month, but forget to or get too busy after a couple of months.
8. Most people don’t want to be bothered by having to answer dumb questions that their web visitors post on their comment sections.
9. Most people don’t want to spend hours looking at competitors’ web sites and linking to high quality articles they find.
10. Most people don’t have the patience to comment on other people’s websites on articles and videos that relate to their expertise.
11. Most people don’t have the discipline to learn new ways of typing and posting web content because they tell themselves “hey, I’m not a techie.”
12. Most people simply don’t have enough passion for one subject to write or talk about it on a consistent and regular basis.

These are the reasons why your competitors will never become wildly successful at blogging and building major internet presences. Please note that none of their reasons for failure involved any of the following: Read the rest of this entry »