The Only Route To Success is Hard Work

Posted by Ben Lumley on Jan 8, 2010 in Success | 35 comments

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I get asked the same question a lot; 'How did you get established so quickly?' it always makes me smile to think someone actually thinks I'm established, ha ha me a dumb ass!. I wrote a tutorial about it, which details the exact way I did it and continue to do it. I reply to everything, I post 14 times a week, I get 5 hours sleep a night MAX and guess what? It pays off. Effort The amount of effort it takes to start a website is virtually nothing, but the amount of effort it takes to run a busy website is tremendous. Ben is a huge fan of Gary Vaynerchuk (I had never heard of him until Ben talked about him, FYI Ben can I borrow your book?) Gary has a $70 million dollar business built from hard work, not black hat SEO or marketing dollars, but pure hard work. I have a full time job (12hrs a day) and a young family, I'm the typical internet user with a dream. But that is where the difference ends, I work as hard as I can to make sure my readers get the replies they want and deserve, the site is updated regularly and I visit, comment and tweet every site I come across.

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Why I took a night off to Crush It! and why you should to.

Posted by Ben Lumley on Dec 17, 2009 in Success, Thinking Differently | 8 comments

Image from of CrushItbook.com My usual day if I'm working at home goes something this...

• Wake up / Breakfast / Say good morning to the wife and kids
• Install myself at the desk and work through work for my 9-5 job working for No Limits
• At 5, I clock off and start working on this site and my business site Smashing Business
• Have dinner and spend some time with the family until around 9/10pm
• Pick up working on the sites again to around midnight-ish (sometimes later)
• Go to bed
• Rinse and Repeat

That's usually how it goes these days during the week, while during the weekend I just concentrate most of my attention on my sites and around spending quality time with the family. But yesterday for the first time in a very long time I broke away from the norm and give my full attention to something else. Yesterday, after a long wait, I finally got my hands on my very own copy of Gary Vaynerchuk's Crush It! And after itching to read it all day, I finally closed the laptop around 5pm and eagerly began reading.

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