The Tunnel Vision Trap
The other day I got into a friendly debate with someone who is into IM. This person knows a lot about the industry and is someone I consider wise in many ways. However, it struck me in the course of our discussion that he was rigidly set in his ways about a few things. When I mentioned that I had made a fair bit of money from Adsense since it came out several years ago, he scoffed and basically implied that I was not serious since that was a major portion of my online income. This honestly surprised me coming from this person, so I kind of dug deeper to see where he was coming from. It turns out he'd tried it early on, didn't have much success, and had moved on to other things - some of which he has since been very successful doing.
So I probed a bit more and found out he holds this opinion about several other income methods in IM. In each case, it was something he'd tried, basically failed at, and so adopted the opinion that anyone who didn't also fail at those things was not as serious about his business and would probably not last in the industry.
This person is not a Warrior, by the way - at least not anyone I know by screen name or actual name here.
Without making this post too long, I also wanted to mention that I've had similar friendly debates with people (some who are Warriors) along these same lines, only about specifics. I got into a really fun and enlightening discussion about 3 months ago with someone who is also into Adsense, for example, and he refused to acknowledge that there was more than one way to go about it if you wanted good results. I even showed this person my own results (although I don't recommend this because Google frowns on such things). He still contended that my results were a fluke, an aberration, the exception that proves the rule.
Sigh. The point here is that you shouldn't get tunnel vision when it comes to how to make money in IM. I think nobody wins when you do. You shut off interesting ideas that might lead to a boost in your own income, but you also start spreading false information if you talk to others who are up-and-coming. Telling someone just getting started that something absolutely will not work when it just didn't work for you is harmful to everyone involved.
It's trite, but oh so true: there's more than one way to skin the cat.
Peace.
John
So I probed a bit more and found out he holds this opinion about several other income methods in IM. In each case, it was something he'd tried, basically failed at, and so adopted the opinion that anyone who didn't also fail at those things was not as serious about his business and would probably not last in the industry.
This person is not a Warrior, by the way - at least not anyone I know by screen name or actual name here.
Without making this post too long, I also wanted to mention that I've had similar friendly debates with people (some who are Warriors) along these same lines, only about specifics. I got into a really fun and enlightening discussion about 3 months ago with someone who is also into Adsense, for example, and he refused to acknowledge that there was more than one way to go about it if you wanted good results. I even showed this person my own results (although I don't recommend this because Google frowns on such things). He still contended that my results were a fluke, an aberration, the exception that proves the rule.
Sigh. The point here is that you shouldn't get tunnel vision when it comes to how to make money in IM. I think nobody wins when you do. You shut off interesting ideas that might lead to a boost in your own income, but you also start spreading false information if you talk to others who are up-and-coming. Telling someone just getting started that something absolutely will not work when it just didn't work for you is harmful to everyone involved.
It's trite, but oh so true: there's more than one way to skin the cat.
Peace.
John
Niche Pro Profits - How I raked in OVER $120k in 9 months with authority niche sites...
Just when you think you've got it all figured out, someone changes the rules.