I have no true passion, what to sell?

I don't think your situation is unique. There are a lot of successful online people that have no interest in their business subject. They simply are motivated by making money to support their family, giving them time off from work, not having to commute, getting out from under a horrible boss, etc.

You just have to let your motivation be something other than your own passion for the subject material.

Steve

Simply, many people are in your situation. I'd say that you've found something to write about and make videos about. Seems to me, that if you could express the way you feel about IM, that very many people would watch your videos - especially, if you would rant and complain about what you see are real problems with the marketplace.

Then it becomes an issue of how to monetize. Some Youtubers are making money with their youtube videos gaining many views (followers help with that). Maybe you can buy a few IM products and talk about them honestly - the way you see it. When you find something that actually worked a little for you, then you can highlight that and make a few affiliate sales with that.

I can see you growing into something - the main point is to START!

Oftentimes, I entertain the craziest ideas and work them through and discover many good ideas with the process. Many people find success only after progressing along without much direction - but you must START and you can only start from where you are now!

What do you like to talk about all day?

Make a list.

It doesn't have to be "for the rest of your life." Just the next little while.

Turn to Google.

Type CART BEFORE HORSE, an' press ENTER.

I figure that is your mindset right now, minus the equine assistant.

Prolly you need to forget this question for a while, ooze out feelio on sumthin' more important.

Then mebbe you can shop out on Amazon for stirrups.

I heavily promote PPL(pay per lead) offers. All of which I have zero personal interest it and my passion/interest is marketing...making money from.

The reason why I chose PPL is no credit card required to complete an offer, all a user has to do is fill out a form for me to make money. So conversion rates are typically much higher than an offer that requires a purchase. Basically I just generate leads.

I favor offers that have a make, get or save money angle to them, as they have overall worked the best for me and tend to have the greatest mass appeal. So the potential exists to produce high volume.

I will also promote some offers that don't have the money angle, requires a purchase or free trials, but mass appeal needs to exists with them as well. These I will however, promote on the back-end. But whatever I promote, it has to be a legitimate, quality offer. I won't promote some crappy offers just to make a buck.

Anyway, something to think about.

(From my own experience.) There's much easier to profit from something you are interested in. Are you a gym rat? Then maybe the fitness niche would be good for you, or maybe you are a cat lover? Why not focus on a e-store related to that?.

If you have no true passion, then that's okay. Think like a MARKETER and find a low competition niche that you can dominate. It just might turn out that you learn more about a particular hot niche than you ever cared to. But at the end of the day.... you're more than likely going to turn out profitable if you do your marketing right in the small niche you choose.

There are lots of successful entrepreneurs who've built businesses around things that they don't have a passion for.

They just recognized that there's a market which they can serve, and if they do it right they can make the money to fund whatever dreams/goals they have.

To make this work, if that's the case, you need to develop productive habits by disciplining yourself through small steps every day.

Regards,
Daniel

From what you describe in your post, you have interest in making money but I thought you might become so demotivated because you are expecting the results from IM a lot too high while what you have got so far was pretty dismal.

Then you need to gear yourself towards results. You are considered lucky you have made some fortune in IMO while 95% of others were still not seeing a dime. You need to trigger your motivation from these small results and scale them up. Marketing is about doing it again and again. That is how you can build your passion - driven by results.

Yeah, you might say it is easier to say than being done but being persistent is what proves to be success in this business.

Then you do have some Passion. You can have Passion for the process of building a business Online. And you can have Passion for putting that together and all the Steps involved. And you can have Passion for the end result which making money and helping people and being able to pay your own bills and earn a Living with it

For many people, that is plenty to keep the Drive going and the Inspiration on overdrive for long term


- Robert Andrew

That's your first problem. If you don't have passion you going to either keep living off of other people or your going to be stuck at a 9 to 5 your entire life trading your time for money.

It's called THE FACTS

Making money online is so easy but only once you understand the formula and are willing to take the action to make it work. The problem I see is 90% of people have the incorrect mindset and simply pitch their affiliate links and get upset and blame everything else why they are not succeeding.

Take responsibly and do what is necessary and then you can start to see results.

Just to put it blunt for you and everybody else...

If i were you, I would start a blog and youtube channel and focus on building an email list. Create videos about your journey in the world of internet marketing so far. You say that you have made some sales on Clickbank. Share what you did to get those sales. Also include videos on what you have tried that hasn't worked. This way your audience gets to experience your successes and failures as well. If you are getting down or feeling unmotivated, share why you feel that way and share what helped get you through that moment. ( I guarantee most if not all people who are internet marketers have been there too. Jim Rohn videos are great for motivation btw).
What ever you decide to do, just don't stay stagnant. The best advice I got when I started trying to make money online was to realize that I am going to have failures along the way to success and embrace the challenge. The more you fail, the more you learn and ultimately the bigger your successes will be. This forum is an amazing resource. Just don't get caught up jumping from one shiny new wso to another.
I apologize for the long winded reply.
Best of luck to you!

I am in the same boat as you, OP; I don't really have any passions but video games, making money (which I'm trying right now but getting no results) and Steampunk. Video games seem too saturated and Steampunk is probably not profitable at all.


It seems I don't have any profitable passions like fitness (I don't work out), dating (never been in a relationship and don't plan on it) or heath.

Silly, everyone has a passion in something. Your not trying hard enough. Dig deep and you will find your answer..

Selling something is not really needs that you have a passion on it, as long as you have a capital to do it, go...just do whatever you want to do , eventually you wouldn't notice that you love it already.

Why don't you try creating your own product or service? Try to find a solution to a problem. A selfish mentally will not make money but solving a problem for someone or a company does because you are providing some value. Try to look for problems to solve.

why not write about "How to love what you do"?
maybe you can find your answer in the process!

There must be SOMETHING that you was ever passionate about. What do you usually do in your free time? Maybe you like cars...or books...or fishing or clubbing...or drinking beer

Also try to remember what you were passionate about as a child, when making money was not a necessity for you. I'm sure you had some things you liked to do and some kind of job that you wanted to become "when you will grow up"

Search a good niche and build a business on it <<< many marketers did that without passions

However it's better a bit of search, find what you like to work for, and build a business on it

Your Tolson is an problem that I think has affected many people who are new to this world, including me.
my advice although trivial, is to study and research, but much.
Unfortunately, anyone who tells you that it's easy to make money online, in my opinion wrong.
Need lots of study and initial research, to me is the most important step.
Search googletrend, visiting forums, guides, you'll see that you will find the right way, good luck.

You say:

I'm not sure I believe you. I have a hunch that what drives you at this point is the idea of having already made a lot of money online. Pretty common affliction.

If you really want to make a lot of money online, you have to help a lot of people get something they want and are willing and able to pay for. You don't have to have a deep passion for a specific problem, you just have to connect people with solutions.

Lots of possible business models out there besides reviewing 'how to make money' products. I've been on the commercial Internet pretty much since the beginning, and online services and bulletin boards before that. There are ways to make money that we never even imagined.

Someone mentioned that the only thing they were passionate about was video games. Well, there are people out there, in large numbers, who spend hours watching videos of other people playing video games. And players who are cashing in on that desire by making the videos.

Start by waking up and paying attention to the world around you. Listen for the things people say they dislike, and see if there's a market for a solution. If so, is there a way you could provide that solution for a price?

Don't just "think outside the box", pretend the damn thing isn't even there. You'll start coming up with ideas. Once you start, it will be hard to stop. Truth time, many of those ideas will be crap. So what? Keep at it. Keep matching problems and desires you see in other people and possible solutions.

You will find an idea that fires your imagination.

Making efforts to make money is a dire need, be it making offline or online. If you have a passion for it then you stay focused and determined and that's good for you to move along your way. If you lack somewhere in that passion, then you ought to adapt it as soon as possible because money goes only to those people who have both a passion and a love for it.

As far as selling is concerned, you either have to sell your own product or service or you have to sell someone else's product or service. Just focus on one thing initially and start taking right actions according to that thing but with a due mindset as well till you get a success that is sustaining one.

Just make sure that whatever you decide to sell, there is a market for it and you can sustain with that market for a long run.

The lack of follow up questions or any reaction from the OP leads me to believe that maybe he/she should focus on "couch potatoes" as a niche.

I have no idea if he/she can find products to promote in this niche, but if not... maybe there is a wide open market that could be addressed by creating the appropriate products to fill that void.

I agree with some other posters, there has to be something you like! You know what you don't like, as you clearly shown when you mentioned the make money online niche. So, if you go to JVZOO or Clickbank marketplace and look to all the categories, you'll probably eliminate 90% of the categories there, and your preferred niche will probably appear in one of the few niches you can't say you don't like

If you don't like that idea you might take a complete different approach: just follow the money.... Look to the most profitable niches and go with one of them. If it works out, you'll start loving the niche.

Whatever you do just don't get stuck over there! Make a call and do it. If it doesn't work out you can always change to a different niche. If you think too much you probably won't execute.

I would say:

First, do something that you are good at -- something that you are skilled or gifted at.

After that, I would ask yourself: "What things in life do people often ask for my help with?" Starting a business doing what others are already asking you for help with is generally a good idea... especially if you are gifted in that area.

Thanks OP and all responders. My new report, "How to Be Happy with Your Passionless Life" is almost complete.

It is basically an 11 Step Program for "Passionless Anonymous"

Holding first meeting soon.

In a very flat, passionless voice; "Hello, my name is Gordon, I've been without passion for 23 months now."

Group, sort of groaning/shrugging their response, "Hello Gordon".

Passion is over rated, by those who have it. Most of us don't have great passion, barely muster enough energy for the daily mundane.

But, you can still be happy, even successful, and do so without PASSION.

In business, sometimes your passion can become your nightmare, you embrace the advice...

do what you love...

And then find yourself months later being miserable with taking care of the business you built around your passion. Then, when you hate your passion, the walls come tumbling down.

So, OP and other passionless friends...

Forget Passion.

Best advice came from dear ol Mom, when she told me one day...

"Son, get off your ass and go do something. DO anything."

And Ma was right.

Maybe, you will find something that ignites the fire, maybe you won't.

And, at the very least, get my new report, and start your own Chapter of Passionless Anonymous, and send the collection/donation plate around at the meetings. (I hope to get a good deal on day old donuts for mine).

How to Be Happy with Your Passionless Life? DO!

gjabiz

PS Reserve your territory for your chapter of PA, zip zones are going fast, yearly fees apply.

Sometimes "passion" develops as you keep progressing. It's doesn't have to be something you immediately jump out of bed to do.

Just something that you find interesting.

HTH.
: )

A service people need with recurring commissions...like web hosting.

Thank you everyone for your input. I suppose I will just have to try a new niche out and see what happens. I just get demotivated because when I did that before I didn't have any success and it just felt like a big waste of time to me. Last time that happened to me I quit IM for about 3 years.

I think I might try out a new niche. I enjoy websites like infowars.com which promote freedom, and who are pro constitution, etc.

Only issue with that is the fact that there isn't as many people in that niche compared to making money/losing weight niche. I also believe it is much harder to sell people in some niches compared to others, which is a huge obstacle to overcome in of it's self.

How do you use clickbank? Do you have a blog??

Hi,


Here is what you need to do:
1. Just choose your interest for selecting a base topic for your blog.
2. Google it out for finding the best blogs in that niche.
3. Implement one on your own with loads of informative content.
4. Apply for Google, Yahoo, and Amazon programs.
5. Once you have thousands of monthly visitors to your blog, just relax.
6. Keep posting content on a regular basis.


Chintan

if u push a little bit more

u will find it for sure

Yes, passion is important because it's going to help you enjoy what you do. But sometimes doing something you're not really passionate about can help you prepare for when you DO find something your are passionate about. Just think of your initial endeavors as learning experiences. By the time you start a business around something you love, you'll be smarter and better prepared for it.

passion is quite important in life... just built the passion meanwhile the only thing that can motivet is to make money more and more