Starting is Easy. Finishing is Hard.

I’m not sure if there’s a way to calculate the number of abandoned blogs/websites, but it must out number the maintained ones 5 to 1 (maybe 50 to 1?).  Ever come across a site with more “coming soon” pages than pages with content?  What’s really weird is when those pages are 3 years old.

Hey, who am I to say what “soon” is anyway?

Story time:  A guy in sales told me that the big trick to growing his numbers was, “just show up”.  Picking up the phone, returning calls, answering emails, seeing who needed help and where.  That kind of thing.  No race to accumulate 50,000 Twitter followers or an intricate network of anonymous names on LinkedIn.  He did the things the majority of folks skipped over.  He delivered, without fail, to his base.  His reputation grew.  So did his base.  So did his sales numbers.  He never stopped and he’s happy as hell.

Do you floor it when a new idea hits you and then slowly drift off and quit, or do you keep plowing through, growing your base everyday?