It’s Cooperation, Not Competition

There are those of us in this world that are competitive by nature. We are even competitive about being competitive. We are always thinking in terms of ‘winning’ or ‘losing’.

It’s important to be able to tell the difference between a competitive event and one where the winner is determined through cooperation. Although there’s nothing wrong with wanting to win, our desires can hurt rather than help if applied in the wrong scenario.

You see, when you are engaging in a competition, there is always a goal or a finish line. If you are playing a game of chess, for example, the object is to ‘check-mate’, if you are playing football the object is to get more points than the over team in a limited amount of time. Internet marketing, however, does not come with a finish line. There is no time limit and the game is never over.

The objective of internet marketing is self propelling in a sense. It wants to move itself forward. Internet marketing works best when discovering and implementing new ways to improve internet marketing. Cooperation is the best method for achieving this rather than competition.

Everyone contributes to the development of internet marketing since there is a huge benefit to the community as a whole, and your customers are better able to do the things they want, resulting in more profits all round.

As a natural competitor it becomes a case of seeing who can cooperate more than their competition. Who is able to help their customers more, whose customers are making more money and having more success than their competitors customers.

There is only one way in which competition can help internet marketing, and that is by competing in terms of how cooperative you are compared to your competitor.

There is plenty of business out there for all of us. The supply of business isn’t limited. We can all benefit when any of us benefit. That is what the whole idea of cooperation is.

Leading on from this is my next point. Stop blaming the Guru’s..

There are a huge number of people out there who always have an excuse for their failures. In most cases they will tell you that their failure was not their fault, and caused by someone else.

When they tell their sad tales, they failed because of what somebody else did or didn’t do and the failure just simply wasn’t their own fault….they were VICTIMS. To hear them tell it they were just innocent bystanders when their business crumbled. Ha! Don’t you ever believe one word of that sad story. We all hold our own success or failure in our own hands.

Businesses fail, that’s a fact of life, but the reasons they fail cannot be laid at the feet of others. I’ve heard internet entrepreneurs blame the failure of their internet businesses on someone they scornfully call an ‘Internet Guru’.

These people tell anyone who will listen that the failure of their internet business was not their fault and that a ‘guru’ was responsible for the failure by selling them products that they didn’t need and that they ended up receiving so much email that they couldn’t get their work done.

Successful internet marketers (’gurus’) often send out recommendations to their client list, informing them about products which may be of interest. At no point in time do they say that you are REQUIRED to make a purchase.

These are merely offers of products that these successful internet marketers feel are worthy enough to be offered to their lists. The offer doesn’t mean that the product will necessarily help each and every person on those long and impressive mailing lists.

Each internet entrepreneur is responsible for their own success as well as for their own failure if it comes to that. Everybody should know their own business well enough to determine whether a product offered would be truly helpful or not and when advice is given, it is just that, ADVICE.

It isn’t an order that you must follow…it is only a suggestion. The decisions about your business are always up to you and you alone.

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