What a sweetie you are!
I’m glad you liked the post and I must say finding a balance with ‘learning’ is still a challenge.
I have to factor in ‘No Learning Allowed’ days into my week lol.
All action, NO learning :)

Michaelé

This is so perfect for all of us doing our best to learn everything! I am so happy you wrote this article. I felt the same way as you and I must say, I still get caught up in the “learning”.

Thank you for your wise words of experience and I will take it to heart.

Much love & mahalo (thank you),
Kellie :)
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Aww, okay, I’m warming to your disagreement!
I can definitely see your logic re SEO so perhaps I chose the wrong point to labor.. And you are right, I would hate to have to go back and do all of that stuff now.
Like I just discovered a month ago that I forgot to install Google Analytics…. Dah! I guess this was because I thought installing GA was getting ahead of myself, when I was just starting out. Now I realize it was one of those things I should have spent time on, ahead of time. If that makes sense.

Good point on relearning for the second time, as there are definitely some things where the knowledge does come back faster because you have spent time on it in the past.
I also probably did make some strategy changes along the way due to learning certain things ahead of time too.

Great post as usual!

Having said that I must disagree with you on one small point. I am pretty clued up with SEO and the like, working with it ALL the time.

You said:

“Firstly, one of the biggest mistakes we make (well at least I did) is learning information ahead of time. E.g I was learning SEO before I even launched my blog! This is a huge waste of your time.”

I don’t think that learning it ahead of time is a waste at all, here’s why:

1) One of the biggest mistakes people make when putting up a new site is they do the site first, then try to do the SEO (search engine optimisation) afterwards. This is often laborious, time consuming and just damn hard!

2) I’m sure that even though you maybe didn’t remember the very technical details (and I don’t think there are that many), you probably remembered the fundamentals when setting up your site, eg, great content, title tags, keyword usage, back links, etc

3) Even though you may have forgotten some of the stuff, when you went back to “relearn” it, I’m pretty sure you found the info you wanted much faster because you already had an idea of what you were looking for. Also, I’m sure that as you read it again, alot of it just made more sense the second time around?

4) And this is a biggy for me. When you do something (not necessarily websites) and you learn ahead of time, you may actually discover something that completely revolutionises the way you WOULD have done it had you not pre-learned.

I think you did it the right way round, even though you may not think or realise so. Think about it like this, what would be the value of embarking on a project you know nothing (very little) about, and then learning about it afterwards? Doesn’t really make sense, does it?

2010 is our year for sure!

Cheers,
Jodi

I’m glad my post sparked a fire for you!
Chatting to people here I think information overload has been across the board at some stage for all of us.
The key now as I see it is exactly what you mentioned re there are new people coming online all the time.
I’ve started writing a list of the things I didn’t know how to do when I started learning Social Media. This has been a great little exercise as my list is HUGE and it keeps growing as I have constant flash backs on the things I once didn’t know.

Now I’m laughing about the webinar conversation as whilst I’ve probably attended hundreds, conducting them is on my ‘to do’ list. Perhaps the first one should be on “How to recognize the value you have to offer” lol.

Happy New Decade!

You make me laugh with your analogies!
Seeing as I don’t drive, I can only imagine how difficult it is to make a car turn left while in park lol.
The key is definitely to stay on track by moving (even if they need to be tiny steps) toward our goals. It’s so easy to lose sight of where we are headed if we allow overwhelm to lead to paralysis.

I can’t wait to see what you have hidden up that Tribe Mastery sleeve of yours in 2010.

Given the amount of value I see you offering out there I think I’m going to have trouble keeping up!
If it wasn’t for you I’d still have a completely squished up comment layout!