Congratulations, its been a while coming and you and your sales associates have put a lot of time and effort into marketing your product and you are now one of the top online marketing professionals on the web with a top selling product or even perhaps with several. You may not be quite a millionaire yet, but you and your marketing associates are making nice tidy sums of money every month and the amount is steadily increasing. You can sit back and take great pride in what you have accomplished. You are now a well known important figure in the world of online marketing; you are now one of the “big boys”.

This is all very well; you have accomplished a lot and worked very hard to get it; however with power comes responsibility also. Remember those letters you wrote to some of the big companies when you were first starting in? Remember how nervous you felt as you invested your money in starting up your business? Sure, it wasn't an awfully lot of money, but you really couldn't afford to throw it away and it seemed like a really big investment at the time, when you had to stop and figure that as good a product as you felt you had, you really weren't sure if this would work or not and you were pretty nervous about it.

Remember the executives from the big companies who took the time to answer your emails? Remember how good it made you feel to think that they would take the time to personally bother with you and to give you advice, even if it was just a word or two? Remember the big companies that visited your website, checking out the “new kid on the block”? Remember how good it made you feel when you saw that some of the top online marketers had taken the time to sign your guest book or to send you an email? Made you think pretty highly of them that they weren't too big to take time for the little fellow didn't it?

Ok, now you're one of the top presences in online marketing. You've made it! Have you taken the time to go back and personally thank those that helped you along the way with personal advice or a word of encouragement that meant so much at that time? It would be a nice thing to do, just to let them know once again how much you appreciate what they did and how well you are now doing.

Don't be so big that you forget what it is to be small either. Now is the time when a word of encouragement from you “one of the big boys” would mean so very much to someone else who is just starting out. Take the time to surf the web, find out who is the “new kid on the block” in your field and visit their website, sign their guest book or send them a personal email. It will in all likelihood mean as much to them as the ones you received meant to you back when you first became an online marketer.

Be grateful for what you have accomplished and for all those that helped you along the way. Don't forget to say thank you and to reach out a helping hand and a word of encouragement to someone else who is now where you were just a comparatively short time ago. Don't be too big to think small.