Lipstick on a Pig
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas A. Edison
It is hard not to look at your online business affairs as full fledge hog that takes and takes never giving back.
For every online success you will have many times more online blunders, time wasted, money lost, many more pigs… Sometime you just need to put a little lipstick on your pig and move on.
The truth is “Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.†Thomas A. Edison.
The way I see it all we need is a collective 10,000 mistakes to make one giant Light Bulb success.
This area is about dressing up your pig and taking him to market.
Lipstick on a pig is a place to share your mistakes so we don’t all have to make them.
Comments (47)
Mike Hunt6
G`day,
gosh how ironic I was reading this post as I realized i`d made a HUGE!! blunder uploading a large file. Uploaded the wrong one didn`t I ... DOHH!! This is after battling my server for the past 30 hours trying to upload a VERY HUGE zip, around 120 Mb ... it timed out on me several times, then it created a "Forbidden File" or something ... got onto the "geek squad" and sorted that out but boy, once i`d finally sorted it all out, it took 5½ hours straight to upload (no broadband h
Valerie Hasara15
Marketing, Web Designer, Owner
Don’t mess with the big guy !!
Diane Cooke4
Well I am still learning in Apsense. I have tried 3 times to start another group only to have it all deleted because the photo won't upload - wrong type (jpg?), wrong size, wrong colour?
I remembered to start reading the comments to this from the bottom (at last) but they still did not make sense then I discovered there are 3 pages worth so I should have started there!!!
I have also forgotten the code sometimes.
It is good to learn there are other people as accident prone(?) as me.
PrimoGear3
Going out on friday the 13th
Wendy Heddington4
Hi Valerie...love the pic of the pig...tehehehe.....well like so many (or not so many) I'm alittle sick & tired of receiving and joining these FREE advertising sites that offer you sick amts of money per month ONLY to find out that you have to become a member of some sort 1st....well, I did with a couple....went nuts on advertising those sites and wasted my money....I Love APSense simply b/c of how it was marketed & still is marketed....keep it going!!!
Wendy
Happy Networking to ALL and re
Cathy Romine10
SEO Advertising | SEO Online
Just as with life,
Storms come before the sun
Doubts before the confidence
Money Spent before the income
Investing before the profits...
Want success, be consistent, it's there!
Build it and they will come...(no doubts)
Cathy Romine
Rebecca Beasley8
Consultant, Web Designer, Script Set Up
How many times have you signed up for stuff and after you sign up you find it's not what you thought it was and you keep getting e-mails from them and forget to unsubsubscribe. I've done that a lot and now I'm getting about 5000 e-mails per day in my gmail.
If you don't like something, unsubscribe right away and don't let those
programs build up to the point that you can't keep up with them.
Marie Gervacio7
Brilliant Body Success Coach
Ohhhh why didn't I see the cute pig earlier! lipstick on a pig huh hahaha
makes making mistakes a little easier to take... gonna put some on the pig next time.. oh I am still laughing thanks Valerie
And oh the longer you live the more mistakes you make eppps. I have done the messed up link thing too Valerie! I feel for you. Test, test test... I am sometimes in such a hurry and oops... I forget sometimes that great advice my mom always gave "haste makes waste".
Pete Balasch Jr.14
Internet Marketer Pod caster
Ever Spent a lot of time getting some text ready for that Great Blog Post and All of a Sudden it disappears? Because I didn't save it ? Oh well back to the Drawing board.
Graham Hunt5
Mistake .....+5 I must be doing an awful lot because the mistakes are starting to pile up so high I can't get out of my study door.
Forget the time you read at the top of this post. For me it is just after 9am Tuesday morning. Last night I found I got scammed yet again by a mob who promised me guaranteed sign ups to my business progam. Turns out someone from their office sat at a computer and entered in a whole lot of bogus names, and emails that are designed not to bounce but presumably ne
Jenny Stewart11
Hi Qll,
I'll save my long list of screw ups for later - do you really want my life story here? lol
For now i am going to ask Tom - please icant get your link to work - taking out the UBB code and pasting it on the search bar - no way
url]http://andreareasoneill.com/spamtriggers.html[/uyrl]
Help - I thought i was going to disover why the letters from my Auntry May go into Spam or get wiped out by the Spam Killer but the nasty insiduous adv erts from professional marketers sneak into my mail
Graham Hunt5
Mistake #,,,+4. I have spent a lazy Sunday afternoon creating a website with audio. Everything looked great, uploaded it onto the web only to find you can only have ONE audio message per folder. Now I'm in the throes of going back, putting the pages with audio into separate folders with corresponding changes to my link codes to those pages so I can have separate audio files on different pages.
WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS~~~READ THE INSTRUCTIONS!!!
Graham Hunt5
Mistake #...+3 Enter the for digit authority code AFTER you have typed your post, otherwise it may well have timed out.
Mistake #...+4 But if you do that, don't forget to enter the jolly thing!!!
Graham Hunt5
It's becoming fairly evident that what I have believed all along is in fact true. The experiences of this group tend to support my belief that the adage "You learn from your mistakes" is not quite true. It surely is more correct to say "you learn from reflecting on your mistakes and adjusting your behaviour accordingly."
Case in point. I wonder how many of us have been caught in the mistakes we are admitting to here on more than one occasion. I know I certainly have. And some of them hav
Jennifer Underwood11
Promoter
Keep up with what you sign up under...I thought I had...but it caused my bank to be overdrawn. I could've transferred money from my propay....but I got too wrapped up into things!
p.s~I love the idea about the prepaid visa....I never thought about that!!! Thanks.
~Jenn
Graham Hunt5
If I wasn't firm believer that we are all connected, that would sound almost spooky!
Beth Schmillen10
well if this doesn't seem like you're all looking over my shoulder as I was working this morning! I had that not logged in thing happen to me for the umpteenth time!
I definiely need to get a separate Visa for online purchases!
and whatever else has been a trial and error... I think I just went through that... a day later than Graham!
Beth
Graham Hunt5
Sorry Pete, I don't think you qualify for this group, Doesn't sound like you're making too many mistakes at all!!! ROTFL
Pete Balasch Jr.14
Internet Marketer Pod caster
Thats Great Valerie
I am up to 71 personal signups in Apsense
and My downline just a few short of 1,000
This is really the time to build
Valerie Hasara15
Marketing, Web Designer, Owner
Have to share… I finally ran out to a small list an Apsense advertisement. But I got fancy and pulled the page under my ezine header. http://OyesUcan.com/apsense
Well the way I pulled the page it didn’t hold my username. So by my estimation looking at the click rate on the page I do believe I just gave Apsense about 35 new signups.
What did I lean (again) always Test and Track. I am just too used to affiliate programs and setting cookies. W 2.0 sites don’t work