You Get A Lot For FREE But You End Up Paying For It

The title of this post speaks volumes. I just thought that was such a great phrase I wanted to use it in my first post on this new Blog. I’d like to thank Leo Kottke for saying it on a radio program the other day. You may know him as a fantastic 12 string Guitarist (http://www.leokottke.com/cgi-bin/ontour/leotour.cgi). But my first impression of him was a guy who speaks a lot of common sense. He was talking about his profession, but the phrase is just as relevant to the Internet.. He went on to say something I think is even more profound, ”We are all born with a Crap Detector”.

The problem is we often turn off our “Crap Detector” as we desperately try to get our Blog or Web Site up and running. And that’s when the wisdom of the two statements becomes relevant. We stop thinking and start buying, believing that the “Holy Grail” to our problems is the next eBook, or eCourse we purchase.

It never is - and it never will be. As with all good things we succed in little steps then look back and see how far we have come. As we look back we will see all the detours and all the back-tracking we did to get to where we are now. We see we have often gone a great distance but we travelled two or three times that distance to get there. This is called learning and experience and it cannot be avoided if we are to succeed.

Oh sure, we can outsource much of the technical stuff and that will give us a ride for part of the way. But at some point we have to do the walking and make it happen ourselves.

It is imperative you understand the Internet environment and work your way through selecting only those tools and services that are going to assist you achieve your goal and rejecting those tempting ‘nice to haves” that will drop in your lap to distract you, as you journey towards your goal.

This Blog will try and guide Baby Boomer Internet Newbies through the Internet. I will try and ensure FREE really is FREE and where it is not, I will try and point out how you will end up paying for it.

But remember as soon as you open up the Internet make sure your CRAP DETECTOR is turned ON!

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