Okay, let’s deal with that title right up front; your success has less to do with what you know when you start out trying to make money online than your shoe size, which doesn’t matter at all.

No, I’m not saying you should know nothing and just “wing it”; far from it. However, a lot of folks seem to get caught up in the idea that they don’t know quite enough yet to make money online.

Bull.

You can spend one evening surfing around the internet and find out everything you need to know to get started. For a lot of that information, your common sense will have already told you what to do.

You’ll notice that the title of this post is incomplete; those three dots at the end seem to indicate there’s more to the sentence. And there is.

It’s not what you know about online marketing, it’s what you do with what you know.

You’ll find inspirational quotes all over the place from Thomas Edison, the inventor of the light bulb, such as “Success is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration.” When asked what it was like to fail almost a thousand times before succeeding in the invention of the light bulb, he replied “I didn’t fail, I just found over nine hundred ways not to do it.”

He was truly a great inventor, but I know of an arguably even greater inventor. Until recently, few even knew his name.

Nikola Tesla came to America and took his first job…working for Edison in his lab. Before long, they parted ways after it became apparent that Edison and Tesla had different ways of looking at things.

After he left, Tesla was instrumental in the invention of radio; he invented the fluorescent light bulb, AC power, and hundreds of other inventions that are still in use today. In fact, many of Tesla’s inventions have replaced Edison’s in daily usage. Every non-LCD television creates the picture on the tube using a Tesla coil.

Edison died a wealthy, well-respected man. Tesla died penniless and friendless in a hotel room he hadn’t the money to pay for.

What does this have to do with online marketing? Quite a bit, actually.

Both Edison and Tesla were one-of-a-kind geniuses; they both had a level of knowledge that few could come close to. Both men created fantastic inventions, and changed the way we would live forever.

Tesla didn’t market his inventions; in fact, he said more than once that he didn’t care about money at all.

Edison marketed his inventions like a champion; he also spent quite a bit of time and money marketing against Tesla. In fact, Edison invented the electric chair and toured state fairs to show how dangerous Tesla’s AC power was, as opposed to his much “safer” DC power.

Arguably, Tesla was the more intelligent, more knowledgeable and more effective inventor. Edison, however, was the most successful by far.

I’ll say it again…it’s not what you know, it’s what you do with what you know. You can be the most successful person in the room without knowing the most.

So, it’s time to stop thinking about how much you don’t know, and concentrate on what you can accomplish with what you do know.

To Your Infinite Success,

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