Can Successful Entrepreneurs Turn You Into One?

Tired of your email in-box filled with offer after offer from every guru under the sun?  If you’re like me, you’re afraid to delete everything because there just may be that one golden nugget there that will be the answer to your prayers.  At the same time, you’re suffering from what I like to call guru fatigue.

If you are a novice in an enterprise like Internet marketing, it is a good idea to have someone show you the ropes - perhaps one of those successful entrepreneurs who knows what he or she is talking about.

But finding someone who is probably more successful in selling just the idea of success to you, as opposed to any actual, useful, and practical knowledge doesn’t really qualify as teaching.

That is why teaching is - and should always be - a respected career.

Teacher, Teacher

“Those who can't do, teach.” An adage that you have probably heard at some time, or another. This is an adage that can sometimes be true, although it does underestimate the complex skill needed to teach something to someone.

On the flip side of that coin is the idea that those who CAN do, CAN'T teach because knowing something inside your head and applying it to practical use, as well as being able to get someone else to do it as successfully as what you have are two very different things.

Grain of Salt

Like hawkers selling their wares, you have probably been bombarded with e-mails and ads about how to become a top earner. But before you take their word as gold (or alternatively click on the “delete all” button), here are a few tips to help you decide when to sit up and pay attention and when not to:

1. Look at your history with the so-called guru, and gauge your success with him. If you have no history, ask around and look for someone who does.

2. Find out what you do need to know, and determine if this guru seems like a credible source for that knowledge.

3. If the advertiser is more keen on selling you something, rather than concerned about the final outcome and how it could possibly affect you, that is a red flag. Of course, no guru can give you a 100 percent guarantee of success, but he should, at least, be able to tell you what the odds of you becoming one of them successful entrepreneurs are.

4. When you have found a teacher who is a good fit to what you need and what you can afford (that is to say, one who can explain things in ways that are useful to you), then he has earned your trust enough to build a relationship with him. There are, indeed, successful entrepreneurs out there who are definite keepers, so hold on to them when you do find them.

Sooner or later, you will have earned yourself a passage to the exclusive successful entrepreneurs club.

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