This year has been full of ups and downs for me, and while i have learned quite a bit this year, i have learned one very big lesson throughout the course of this year as I’ve found myself engulfed and feeling forced to sacrifice any social time i may otherwise have.

Let me first share what i am talking about more in detail:

I am involved in a partnership with a friend and we run a membership site. Basically we offer paying customers the ability to build back links to their sites and pages from a network of sites we own.

We’ve done this to open the doors to better link building opportunities for ourselves first and foremost due to the model we’ve lined up, however the problem thus far has been handling a network that was continuing to grow each and every month.

What this means is that we built more sites every month.

While that task is really no problem at all, the problem lays in any change that needs to be made to sites within the network we own and there has been many throughout the course of the year.

What has to be done to one site in turn needs to be done to hundreds of others as well. For the most part I’ve spent the entire year maintaining the sites inside the network and it’s totally overwhelmed me and cut into any social time i used to have.

Could i have outsourced these tasks?

Ideally, yes. But my problem is trusting another person(s) enough to do these things for me and properly to boot. This is what i hope to change in the upcoming year though.

But back to the lesson I’ve learned here this year…

It’s better to ask for help and spend time working on things that will make money, rather than on tasks that run your business.

Does this make sense?

For example, look at it this way.

Working IN your business would include duties employees would otherwise do for you.

Working ON your business would include management, overseeing operations and just finding ways to grow your business.

After all, the whole reason why we do these things online is to open the doors to opportunity, not give us more work and responsibility right?

I hope that lesson can be a little time saver for those of you whom maybe have just started to get your feet wet.

Work ON your business… NOT IN your business!

Finally, to the real point of this small update.

I want to wish you all a happy and safe new year. With so much ahead of us, enjoy yourselves.

Prosperous times ahead for us all in 2009!
Colin

A mentor or a go-to person in other words.

When you have bought as many money making products and systems as i have and only experienced minimal success – you begin to wonder where along the line you went wrong!

In these days, guidance from a mentor can really determine whether or not you are successful or not online.

This is exactly where i am today and is the reason why i have put up this blog. To keep a journal so-to-speak of my latest endeavor in a brand new coaching program that was just launched by a gentleman by the name of Alex Jeffreys.

I am very excited to be one of the few who have got into this coaching program as it sold out quickly!

Alex is just an average joe with a great passion and drive to succeed online. His story can be found online so i won’t go into much detail other than this guy earns well over 20k a month now and that success can be attributed to being personally mentored by a couple of the biggest names in the IM field… Mike Filsaime and Rich Schefren.

Stay tuned as i will be reporting my progress as i make my way through the mentoring program.