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My wife and I with our first son

This is Aubrey and I am a father of three kids with my lovely wife Margaret – click here to see our wedding and family pictures. I started internet business in the year 2000 and bumped around without much focus and success

In the year 2004, a friend of mine asked me to take care of his offline business, selling diamond tools to granite shops and construction companies. I am still managing this offline business which has been very successful and steady. But during the years I took my hands completely off the online business, I gradually come to a better ground for internet marketing and online business.

You know what I mean. When you first started, you tended to absorb too much information and often acted on the wrong track because you do not know what really works and what fits you – what works for other people may not work for you as you are different from other people in many ways.

Our three kids in the zoo

So I see these three years working on an offline business a real retreat for me. I sifted out those tracks that definitely lead to failures – not matter how hard you work on them. Most importantly, I started to perceive the solid and workable information that really works for me.

Now I am back without quitting my offline business because I see a way to balance the two and benefit from each other

I hope you do not chase the wind like I did in the past. If you do, you need some retreat and really reflect on what should work and what should fail before you start.

Reflecting on my failures in the past, I find that I spent 95% of the time on technical issues – building a website from scratch; finding, installing and tweaking free script on my websites – I had little time doing the actual marketing. Even when I did have time do some marketing online, I did not have a systematic formula to follow. I did a bit here and a bit there, without even tracking what I did. Basically I took online business as a hobby rather than a real business. A hobby is driven by your curiosities and challenges, not by concrete and sequential steps; and a hobby does not care about success. It does not matter in your subconscious even when you intend to succeed badly. Period!

Aubrey Zhang
Gain4You Blog Admin

Updated on October 28, 2010