Life is filled with challenges and building an Internet Home Business is no exception. It's not always a bed of roses. Take, for example, a problem yesterday with my Blogger template and blog site being messed up for 12 hours.

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Oh, how embarrassing it is: After running ads and promos promoting my Web Bizz Blog, posting on Internet Home Business forums all over the place, establishing some great contacts and driving traffic to my blog page, the darn thing goes down for 12 hours!

And all because of a few little messed up characters in the source code, if you can believe it.

All I wanted to do was add two little helpful links down the left column of the page: one linking to information about the ConquerYourNiche Internet Marketing forum, and the other linking to a great source for Private Label Content for blogs, newsletters and other applications.

I thought I was following directions properly to add the necessary source code to my blog template, and when I previewed the altered template before saving the changes and posting them, everything seemed to look just fine and dandy.

"This is easy!" I thought to myself, a relatively new student to html and search engine optimization practices. "I can do this!"

However, after posting the changes, prickly thorns of torment and trouble hidden within my bed of roses quickly poked through to disturb my premature reverie.

I was immediately brought back down to earth and forced to face the reality of the imperfect world of Internet Marketing. That is to say, despite our best efforts, best intentions and best laid plans, things go wrong. It happens!

It has been said that it's not how many times you get knocked down that matters, but how many times you get back up again. That is so true when you are building your Internet home business.

Now, don't get me wrong. A home-based business is great! The best thing in the world if you want the freedom to do your own thing when and where you want. And the low investment and income potential is incredible - like few other business opportunities in the world.

But when you work at home to develop an online business, you have to realize that you are completely responsible for the choices and decisions you make and for finding solutions to the problems you create.

Fortunately, even though you are in business for yourself, you are not in business BY yourself. Thanks to the Internet, you have immediate access to knowledge bases and support groups that rival even the biggest "traditional" companies.

And that is what saved my skin when I compromised my blog page template yesterday. Even though I went instantly into crisis mode and had to work to control the rising panic, I knew I just had to put the call out to Internet marketing friends and associates and I would be able to resolve my problem.

The answers came quickly and I could have fixed the issue quicker than I did, but, alas, I am a believer in lifelong learning and I look to every experience as an educational opportunity, so I spent some time - anxious time, albeit - trying different approaches and potential solutions to the problem.

In the end, I simply copied and pasted the blog template source code back in that I had wisely saved before making changes yesterday morning. At 3 a.m. last night (well, this morning), I finally restored my template and drifted off to bed, another home-based business crisis narrowly averted.

And then, what did I do? This morning, I went back to the template to once again try adding in those two little changes that sparked the chain reaction of stressful events that ensued yesterday!

This time, I did it a different way. It took only moments to paste the source code in, save it, post it, view it and revel in the glory of success!

But just think of the great learning experience I would have missed if I hadn't made that mistake yesterday. We learn from our mistakes, and I think that sometimes we learn best when forced to focus on a crisis or a serious challenge. We remember THOSE experiences!

When you're building an Internet home business, at the end of the day, through all the typical trials and tribulations, it is grit and determination that truly wins the day.

Sincerely,
GT
StarrBizz.com

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