Why Not Learn From The Best And Avoid The Garbage

When I was taking my degree in Fashion, I chose the road less traveled and took up an overseas degree.

I had to beg, promise and fight to get my parents to agree to let me fly to Melbourne, Australia for me to complete my final year degree.

This was the 1st time I was exposed to internationally acclaimed, successful designers.

In this photo, is Walter Van Beirendonck (the bald one) who created a successful brand call W. & L.T. – Wild and Lethal Trash.

Learning from successful designers like them was definitely the first step to helping me to hone my designing skills (consequently ending up working for a few well known local and international brands).

The same goes to your internet business; you can learn on your own or learn from successful marketers.

In today’s fast-paced economy, remaining ahead of competition is a big concern to many of us.

Business has shifted.

People are losing their jobs… businesses are failing.

And regrettably, it takes time to perpetually research; to read up about other businesses and fresh industry strategies.

Finding out through the experience of other people is the shortest path to success.

It shows you the correct path that’s already been fought through by those before you and prevents you from duplicating the same errors that have already been made.

In an ideal situation you get close to successful people in areas of your life that you admire, simply to have that brief conversation with them to find out how they did it…

Like I was able to with well know designers.

But remember this as well, successful people publish books and hold seminars and workshops.

We don’t need to spend years to acquire an MBA to become a marketer.

What we have to do is pick up a book or training materials from one of the proven gurus and finish it while sitting comfortably at home. (not having to fight with parents to take a plane trip).

However, today time is a commodity that’s so scarce when we go after a life of personal growth and career success.

The more successful we get; the less time it seems we have.

Yet, we require this time to perpetually update ourselves to keep ahead of competition.

At times, there’s way too much info out there for us to possibly keep up on; be it fresh business concepts and techniques or the new time and stress management techniques in self-improvement books.

But it is imperative.

I’ll bet you have tried to do a number of things on your own and have received varied levels of success.

Working by ourselves, in a vacuum, almost always leads us to pitiful results.

Regardless what we do or attempt, it doesn’t work the way it should.

The most successful businesses look to experts while not losing sight of their true values and reason for being.

In order to run a successful business, you need to be able to either be an authority in a number of areas, or have access to individuals with the knowledge.

I truly believe in NOT reinventing the wheel.

Just look at Google. They practically copy every great ideas there are out there.

Initially there is Hotmail, they created Gmail.
How about iPhone… they create Android.
With Twitter, they created Google Buzz.
And many many more…

Why attempt to do something from scratch when you are able to learn how to do things better, quicker and cheaper from other people that have “been there”?

It’s really a no-brainer… why not learn from the best and avoid all the garbage?