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Some thoughts on the Discussion thus far:
Every project needs a Plan, and you better be good at Goal Setting and Time Frames. Do your market research, find out what you think you can (reasonably) make. If that excites you go for it! But have benchmarks - like, am I making x by such and such a date? Once you have your Plan, and your Goals, and you take consistent Action, then 'the rest" is:
luck
timing
forces beyond your control
Now, are we talking MEGA-SUCCESS like Facebook et al? Or are talking "reasonable" success like Mister Peabody World?
See, when i started MRPW in January of 2009 (yes, only 18 months old!) I did NOTHING but plan, plan, plan my little Empire for three months before taking any action. I had come from other AVS systems (not Cyber-Age) and Networks and kinda knew how I wanted to do things. But I told myself: "If I'm not paying my rent by six months of non-stop work, 18 hour days, 7 days a week, then I'll do something else."
I did the math, crunched the numbers, thought $2000 a month was more than reasonable...and then I worked my ASS off! Come Month #5 - 1 month to go before I had to decide to stick with this or move on - and I made my first $2000 month. Yay!
So I kept going, with new Goals: double the income in 6 months, otherwise....and then I hit that. And beyond. But I would've stopped if i didn't reach those Goals because, honestly, there comes a time when you have to stop wasting time and effort if it's not paying off.
Fortunately for MRPW and the dozens of people who make money with my little business it's working out. For now.
But "taking it to the next level"? I don't know, in this day and age, if that's even possible. Maybe things need to "settle down" for awhile and then next year Adult takes off again. Who knows? But I do know trying to be a Craigs List or a MySpace right outta the gate is wrong thinking. Why? Because NONE of the aformentioned mega-sites saw their own success coming, not on this grand scale, so it's pointless TRYING to be the next CL or whatever.
It's like with baseball: TRY and hit a Home Run and chances are high you won't; let it come 'naturally' and you just might.
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