Wow, I can’t believe this site has been live for 2 months now, and not only that… it has grown way faster than we could have imagined (which is a great thing). We owe it all to you out there who stop by and read what we have to say, so we want to say thank-you very much! Also, we would like to send an extra great big THANK YOU to all of you out there that leave comments regularly, which makes this a very interactive site and really fun for me and Mark to run.

Well here is a list of the milestones we have accomplished here at Making Money Online Dot Com in our first two months…

1. Post number 50! – Well… this is actually post number 52, but 50 sounded like a better number to celebrate! I know this probably does not sound like a lot compared to a lot of you bloggers out there, but it is great for us. Also, this number should be increasing faster in the upcoming months, as we only used to post to the blog once a day, Mon – Fri. Soon we will start posting on Sundays too, and eventually we might write posts on Saturdays as well, but we will have wait and see.
2. Over 1000 Comments – This one truly blew my mind. In less than 2 months we have received almost 1200 comments on this site, not including pingbacks and trackbacks… which is AWESOME! Of course many of the comments were probably written by me and Mark, as we always like to reply to as many comments as we can… but the number is still great! Again… thank you guys for all the comments and all the help you have given us!
3. Listed on Page #1 on Google for the Keywords “Making Money Online” – Okay, I know I said receiving over 1000 comments blew my mind, but making it to the first page of Google for the search term, “Making Money Online” in less than 2 months REALLY BLEW MY MIND! We are on the bottom of the first page (and it jumps back and forth between there and the top of page 2), but we are on the first page as I am writing this post! This was definitely one of our main goals for the site, but we did not expect to make it to the first page for like a year or two… so this is an incredible milestone! Someday we hope to grab that #1 top spot.
4. Somebody Asked to Interview Me – This was really cool as well. To be honest, it was a buddy of mine, Jared Little from TheMoneyCult.com who I met through this blog that asked to interview me. But an interview is an interview and I felt honored he asked… and it was fun to do. You can read the entire interview here.

Well that’s it for notable milestones! Again, we want to thank all of you for visiting our site and hanging out and interacting. Without you guys, this site would be pretty boring.

Now we have lots of big plans for the future of this site with interviews with successful online business owners in all sorts of niches, lots of fun how-to tutorials, money making ideas,  case studies,  quick tips on how to do all sorts of things, and much much more. So please keep coming back and follow us on our journey.

Are you tired of being told what to do each day by your boss? Well back in late 1700’s the colonists were sick and tired of being told what to do by Great Britain and having to pay the always increasing taxes. So they decided they wanted their independence and went to war to get it. Was it hard? Absolutely! Was it worth it? Absolutely!

As with your job, if you hate it, why not make a change? Will it take a lot of work? Absolutely! But will it be worth it to work for yourself? Absolutely!

Now I am not saying to go and quit your job tomorrow, as that would not be very smart at all. What I am saying is; why don’t you find some business that you can start in your spare time and start working toward your goal of eventually working for yourself fulltime?

It is definitely going to take a lot of work, as most great things do. But, if you stick with it and finally become successful enough to declare Your Own Independence, it will be well worth the hard work you had to put in.

We wish everyone a Happy Independence Day!

Here are the two biggest things that perfectionism can do to stop you from making more money online.

1) WASTE YOUR VALUABLE TIME

I am actually writing this post because I fell victim to this monster again over the last two days. What happened was I decided to create my first screen capture video to add to my last post which shows people how easy it is to create an Ultimate Footer Ad. I just purchased Camtasia last week, so there was a little bit of a learning curve, but I figured it out pretty fast.

Looking back, the very first video I created yesterday actually turned out pretty good. But the perfectionist in me would not let me use it. You may find this hard to believe, but I probably spent more than 8 hours yesterday working on that basic 3 minute “screen-capture” video and another 3 to 4 hours today. I just kept redoing it over and over again, as I wanted it PERFECT!

Then to top it off, I actually ended up using the video and audio from one of my first takes that I made. Is it perfect? Not even close, but it works fine for this site.

How much time should it have really taken me create the video? I am thinking maybe 2 or 3 hours, as there was little bit of a learning curve, but 12 hours… that was ridiculous! If I wasn’t such a perfectionist, I could have gotten 4 times as much work done yesterday.

The same thing happened when creating this blog. It should have been live weeks ago, but I just kept tweaking the layout, as I never thought is was perfect enough to go live, but I finally said, “screw it” and opened it up to the world.

2) STOPS YOU FROM EVER PULLING THE TRIGGER

What I am talking about here is being such a perfectionist that you never complete your project or open your website. I have done this many times over the years and it can be a killer. You create this awesome product or service that is extremely relevant at the time, but you never release it to the public because it is never perfect enough for you. Next thing you know time has passed and your product or service has missed its opportune window or other people have released similar products, so you just shelve the project.

Now I am not saying you shouldn’t want to put out a great product, you absolutely should. What I am saying is you shouldn’t be such a perfectionist that it stops you from actually finishing a project or opening your first website.

What you need to do is set yourself a timetable for completion and stick to it. Just get it out there and make tweaks after it is live. I guarantee you that almost every successful marketer out there is not 100% happy with their products when they first release them.

Please don’t let perfectionism keep you from following your dreams.