This is my first post and it’s about a mistake! LOL

If you see my page on Warts And All – Why I’m Writing This Blog you’ll see I joined Twittollower the day before I wrote this post.

So, for about 24 hours it’s been working great!

However, simply joining caused me (and still is) quite a serious problem. It’s all my own fault!

What is this problem? Two things:

1 Not listening/reading carefully enough on the site

2 And this is the big one: not being prepared enough before taking the next step!

You see, when you join Twittollower, you create a new account in Twitter first, then you formally join (after paying) Twittollower. In my eagerness, what I didn’t realise was their system starts immediately getting you followers. I thought I would start it off when ready – I jumped in quickly because the first 200 paid the minimum subscription.

And it wasn’t until I checked the email account I’d used that I saw what was happening. I had 150 followers from a standing start!

The trouble was, if they clicked through to this blog or joined GoldVaultZine (as you can see with your own eyes on the day I posted this!) they hadn’t been set up ready to go!

In one sense I was prepared – I’d created materials, thought most things through, mindmapped and so on. But I wasn’t at the point to receive traffic. This could be a disastrous start, especially on Twitter – there’s nothing to see! It’s a waste of time!

I’d been led to an unprepared situation by my lack of attention.

Now, you might say – well ok, but what’s the big panic, you may as well chill out – after all I’ve started now haven’t I? Yes, but not on my terms, which is important for how the business will run and develop.

Really, being prepared is a big and fundamental issue!

Imagine, if you suddenly have a rush of thousands of visitors could you, your business and your system cope?

This is why this is irritating because I knew about this and was getting fully prepared, in fact, almost there. And it could have been a massive mistake.

You, your business and your system must be prepared to deal with mass situations – after all, isn’t that the sort of traffic, subscribers, customers we all want?