Here's what I have learned:

* Trust nobody at first. Feel people out for a good year to five years.

* Be sure to delegate some time to choke your competition- because given the chance, they too would do the same. Examples would be: bad-mouthing them, reporting them (in certain situations) and generally making things harder for them (just make sure you do it smartly).

* Don't spend all your earnings. Save some, invest some.

* Too much reading is wasted time, experience is better.

* Fail. Fail. Fail.

* Engage your users, make them feel special, make them loyal. USE them to promote you, even if that means you have to go one on one with every user you have, persuade them to promote you.

Recently? Not to chaturbate ...

There's some good stuff here.

Constant improvement is key, so don't ready on you laurels.

To tie up somethings others have said:
To make real money and keep making real money, you have to find some good people you can trust. Otherwise, you're just earning a wage, not ruining a business. You can't trust just anybody, though, so find the people who are absolutely faithful in the small things and they will be faithful in the big things as well.

I easily l lost a million dollars in sales by doing everything myself for way too long.

Act with crazy amounts of integrity, never taking a nickle that isn't yours, and the trustworthy people will treat you the same way.

[QUOTE=baddog;17808233]I you should not be afraid to hire professionals. QUOTE]

yes, and believe in yourself.

well it's looks like you are complete scum. thanks for the warning :thumbsup