There’s Always More to Learn – Debi J's Blog
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# There’s Always More to Learn

March 1, 2013
Posted by debij

I’m in the process of putting together five Niche Research Packs so that I can run a WSO over at the Warrior Forum. As they’ve been coming together this week, it dawned on me that even when I get them done, there’s still a ton of things that I’ve gotta learn how to do before I can even see if people like them!

It’s been a while since I put a product in my store so I’ve gotta re-learn how to use DownLoad Guard.

I know I have a really cool report that Peggy Baron put together way back when I started on how to get DLGuard to work with JRox’ Affiliate software so I’m gonna finally have to figure that out.

And then, once all THOSE bugs are worked out, I get to go figure out how the heck to set up a WSO. Thankfully I already have support offers from some of the wonderful people I’ve met over at Tiff’s site!

It’s not that any of it’s rocket science. It’s just that it’s all new territory for me… the great unknown. And it tends to be time-consuming to get everything tested and working right.

And it all stands between me and my getting these packs online. But I set that aside and went to work on the front end first.

I started out Tuesday with the goal of putting together my next research pack in 8 hours or less. I hadn’t worked on them for a while so I fully expected that it would take a bit of time just to find where I’d put everything, what I’d been working on and where I had stopped working. That whole “where did I leave off and what the heck was I doing” thing.

I figured out about 4 hours in that I’ve got a long way to go in the whole area of working on my own boundaries. I had several interruptions throughout the beginning of my day that REALLY slowed me down. And because everyone’s getting used to me working here rather than being available at all hours to chat, I found myself between wanting to BE available and wanting to scream at the top of my lungs for everyone to get the hell out of the house!

It took 14 hours, but I finally got the first pack done. If they all take this long, I’ll have a full head of grey hair and a possible mental disorder emerge! J

On Thursday, I once again started with the goal of getting a full pack done within 8 hours or less. My son was at work and my other half was headed to a job interview so things were going the right direction.

Then I got a note from my Squidoo Lens Group that let me know, once again, that Squidoo’s made a decision that will seriously affect the way I’ve been getting my lenses done. Without a ton of detail here, it put me on a near 2-hour interruption so that I could download all my lenses in order to be sure my work was backed up onto my computer.

The good news is that it got me REAL clear on my decision to follow my heart (along with Craig Desorcy’s advice) on not focusing 100% of my business efforts on lens building, which had been my original plan going into 2013.

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1. That notice on Squidoo was a wakeup call for me too. I had set myself the goal of 100 new lenses per week for this year. However, the latest changes have just reinforced that it is probably well worth the effort to put more effort in on my own sites. (Like getting my PLR store finally all set up.)

   Found you from a comment you left over at Tiffany’s blog by the way and have had you in my reader since. This is the first time I have commented though. Have a good weekend!
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   1. You know, they made a major change right before the holidays that affected a TON of folks out there, along with their holiday incomes.That one sent up a red flag and probably is what made it really easy to hear what Craig was saying, even though I’d made a firm plan for building at least 5-10 lenses a day for the first 3 months and educating myself on all things Squidoo! I think it will have it’s uses, but definitely not someplace to put all our efforts.

      I think your PLR store is a great idea!

      Glad you officially stopped in. I’ve heard about lurkers like you! LOL
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2. I’m doing more there but it’s always gonna be the icing on the cake, not THE cake for me 😉

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   1. I definitely get that Tiff. I really like creating lenses and they’re still on my list of ways to enhance what I’d doing with my other stuff, but I’m glad my eyes got opened earlier on than they might have on the fact that WE are not the ones that control those! 🙂
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