Why the early bird’s can keep their worms

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If you have never heard – ‘the early bird always catches the worm’ then this will be an educational post.  In short, it means that people who rise early in the day will achieve something better than if you don’t.

Well, for me I’ve never been one to get up early want to get up early – I had to when I was in the territorial army!  I’ve been a person who’s enjoyed working in the ‘wee small hours’ of the morning and been quite more positive when there aren’t any distractions about – no little ones running around, answering the door to the postman because he’s got a parcel for you, or speaking to the glazing salesman who just turned up on your doorstep to annoy you.  Everything seems to slow down after midnight near me, there isn’t much happening to be honest and that’s great! In fact I’m writing this post at 3am in the morning – feels like the middle of the day to me.

Hmm Nick, Have you gone mad?

Now I know the early bird metaphor is for people (generally entrepreneurs) starting a new trend or approach to ‘something’ and getting a lot of benefit from it.  I’m not saying that if you get up late in the day (like me) then you can forget about becoming successful, as people operate throughout the world on different time scales.

What I am saying is, that you need to be determined in what you do.  You need to have a plan or strategy in what you are doing, and not steam ahead and start something without testing its viability – checking a niche against its viability as Ed Dale does in the 30 day challenge.  If you’re thinking it’ll be fine, then think again – internet businesses don’t go ‘hell for leather’ into marketing and promoting something, spending hundreds of thousands of dollars if it’s falling on deaf ears, now do they?  They’ll separate the market into segments and decide which of these segments to target with their campaigns and promotions – so too should you when you blog, do your comment strategy (decide which blogs to comment on and why), and be strategic about who you link to.  A million people could’ve started a blog or site in your niche, or the type of business you are running and you too could make thousands of dollars, by having a strategy that differentiates you.

What I’m essentially trying to say here is this: It doesn’t matter if you’re not an early bird, as you can still learn lots of valuable things in the internet marketing world, and it doesn’t matter if you’re learning something that so many people have utilised before – the point is, you need to make sure that the ‘pie’ is big enough for you to take a chunk out of it.  Dependant on what you want from your promotion, idea, or drive will be Dependant on how much of the ‘pie’ you want.

It would be interesting if anyone has been an early bird in a market or business opportunity, or established themselves quickly in a market to make a difference? 

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