When do you execute the pitch?

Personally, I'm flabbergasted. If you sell to prospects who you describe as Lazy and Stupid - you must love wasting time.

Why? Because lazy and stupid people are usually ... Broke! So, what's the point in asking how you can sell them something? Unless wasting time, money and pointless questions is your hobby? Just curious.

Vision13,

Being cynical is fine but it may get in your way of being a successful IMer. Why do you have to choose a niche that is at the top of Clickbank? Why do you have to sell to lazy and stupid people? You don't.

Why can't you find something that interests you, do some simple market research to find a need (solution to a problem), then create (or become an affiliate for) a product to solves that need? It's the way many, many successful Internet entrepreneurs get their start in this business.

Don't limit your options to weight loss, relationships, surveys or survival. There are thousands of other great niches. You just have to uncover one . . . just one . . . that you can enter, become profitable in, and focus your complete efforts on and it will return to you all the money you need.

Being an entrepreneur means you are willing to seek opportunities in the marketplace that present themselves. You don't have to become a slave to Clickbank or only sell products that appeal to "the lazy" people in society. You can do whatever you want. But it takes some effort, follow-through, and smart thinking.

Steve

No one is making you market to people you consider stupid or to choose the worst products in a given niche. Each of the above niches have legitimate products in them as well, such as:

1. Healthy exercise and diet plans
2. Ways to improve your communication skills
3. Emergency preparedness measures
4. Making money by offering legitimate real services that people want or need..

etc, etc, etc.

You don't have to follow the scammers and target the people who fall for scams. You don't have to promote products that you think or know do not work.

In addition, the top products on Clickbank also have no relation to any conclusions you can draw about the majority of people. Wherever you got that idea, you need to stop listening to those people. Get out of the little internet marketing bubble you are stuck in and realize that this is not how most people see the world nor operate in it.

The top products on clickbank are solely a reflection of marketing - and only a certain subset of marketing and marketers at that - not of the general population. There is also a lot of deceptive advertising being done by marketers to get people to buy those scammy type of products. Some people never even see the actual salespage and don't know what they are really buying.

Of course people who are susceptible to falling for scams are going to buy more than people who are not. So if you have say 10% of easily deceived people in the population and you are targeting them, you will make a lot of sales. The other 90% are not buying of course, but you are not targeting them. You can't then say that most people in the world are idiots who fall for scams just because most of the people you target fell for it. The majority of people weren't your target market.

Say you got 7 out of 10 people in your target market to buy - that would be 70% of your target market but only 7% of the population. Of course 7 out of 10 is extremely high but I'm using a high number on purpose to illustrate that even using very extreme numbers you can't get the numbers to support your conclusion.

Anyway, it's your choice what you want to market and to whom you want to market. But don't act like you don't have a choice and have to stick to whatever the few top products happen to be on one particular marketing platform that is driven by means and purposes that have nothing to do with the majority of people or potential customers.

Nailed it james,

As a business owner, you are NOT AFTER A MONEY SPINNER, but a long LASTING business that is like an ATM that pumps out money for the next 20 years, anytime you stand behind it and push the buttons.