On top of that, most of those who decide to pursue a personal business as an Internet marketer tend to be attracted to doing things our way and on our own terms.
Those are great traits, as they encourage self-reliance and lead to far greater satisfaction along our path to success.Unfortunately, these great traits can also be a hindrance to success.
Too often, we instinctively want to learn things ourselves and to do things our own way without taking previous efforts and proven techniques into account. Learning is perceived as an individualized matter and is based on trial and error.
Those errors, though, slow us down and prevent us from reaching our potential more quickly.The idea of learning by copying may be distasteful to us on some level, but in reality, there are times when swiping is perfectly acceptable.
This does not, obviously, refer to outright theft of ideas, plagiarism, or other unethical practices.
Instead, it involves closely observing and copying overall directions and strategies used by other successful marketers and then putting our own spin on them, and making them our own.
In a way, it the old adage of “not reinventing the wheel” put into practical application.