My Biggest Takeaway After A Year

Wow I feel like you just did my bio. I have never had trouble getting hired in the past. Job ends or lose a job? No biggie. Got a new one in a couple of weeks. But this time I am over 45 and they are just not interested. Not at all. Even for crap work. I am over qualified, under qualified, etc. It's taken me a long time to face up to it and now I am fighting back by doing it myself. I didn't lose anything when I turned 40 in fact I would say I am as good as I ever was. And in some ways even better. But heck with them if all they see is a birth date. I am going to make it in spite of them and on my own terms.

I will not go down without a fight and I hope the resources here will help me leveling that field a bit.

I'm 41 tomorrow and know EXACTLY what you mean! We ARE the new newbies. There's no if's or buts, this has got to work for me!

And congrats on your anniversary!! I'm looking forward to my hangover on Friday

I have asked a similar question time and time again. I always get the same answer... "That depends on the person and how much effort he puts into it."

My question has been targeted to gurus who have names like "Classroom" or who claim they have a product that has been tested from scratch many times and proven to work. I would seriously expect any school teacher to be able to answer this question if he/she were teaching a class.

My question is this:

If I follow your program spending approximately 4 hours a day, five days a week, what could I reasonably expect to spend and receive over a period of time? An example answer might be: You should budget about $100/month for expenses and you can reasonably expect to earn $25 in either your first or second month and then double that about every other month for the first two years.

OR

If you follow this plan step-by-step, you can reasonably expect to receive your first sale by step 7. By step 10, you should have received enough to cover the cost of the course and begin making a profit each and every month. 1/2 or more students have been able to reach step 10 in less than two months, but some have taken as long as five months to reach that goal. In the few cases where students have reached step 12 without making a profit, those who repeated the process made a profit by step 10 the second time around.

Due to the feedback and responses I have gotten, I have come to the conclusion that most gurus use the rich-jerk's method. That is to sell the course and turn the customer support over to the lowest bidder. Consider anyone who did not ask for a refund as a 'successful satisfied customer'.

Anyone who proved the system should keep up with their own successes. Someone creating a blog a week could know that they "created 50 blogs and at six months 45 blogs were making a minimum of $3.00 and five turned out to be total flops making less than $1/day after a year."

Obviously, the numbers and examples are fictitious.

Anik Singal was one of those who could not (or would not) answer the question. Based on the free information he gives, I would think he at least knows how to make a profit in the non-IM niches.

Actually, there is one person who sort of answered the question. Lee McKenna has a program where he guaranteed that you would make 1000 lbs sterling (more than $1000) per day if you followed his program every day. However, when I asked a question about it, he tried to sell me on the new program he is into which looks like MLM, at least partly. I hate having my income dependent on someone else who can pull the plug and take the profits so I shied away.

Don't get me wrong, I think highly of both Anik and Lee. I am just surprised that with Anik and others, that given their experiences and the experiences of their students that they cannot or will not account for the measurable success timelines.

When I was a newbie, all I was looking for was to make an extra $200 a month. My work at the time decided to cut my overtime. Because of this, I was completely strapped.

It's funny because if you told me over 3 years ago how much money I would make in online marketing every month nowadays I wouldn't believe it. LOL!

There are many faces of newbies. A big group you didn't mention are women who want to raise their children themselves instead of working a job and sending the children to daycare.

Not everybody is starving for money. In fact, targeting people who actually have money but are starving in a different way would be profitable (IF done in the correct manner).

For example, I know lots of people who are DESPERATE to get off the corporate ladder. They're just looking for the right opportunity and are willing to pay for it.

However, I think the real problem is the way it's promoted to this market segment. In the typical business world (i.e. outside of internet marketing) anybody who makes idiotic claims like: Buy this new $197 product through my link and I'll throw in my exclusive $8,923 bonus is automatically written off as a tanning bed-gold chained-fake Rolex watch-hair implant scam artist.

Even to this day, I absolutely refuse to buy anything from people who email me that kind of crap and rarely open anything they send. It's beyond obnoxious. I will also go out of way to ensure they don't get the sale if I ever do buy that product.

On the other hand if someone respects their mailing list, never spams it and only recommends quality products that will genuinely help me, I have no problem buying through their link.

However, if the target market is people with a lotto mentality who will only churn and burn then I'm sure the huckster approach will produce awesome results.

It hasn't been very long, historically speaking, that we as a society, have been expecting someone else to take care of us, instead of relying on our own selves to take care of ourselves and our families. No stone throwing here, I spent most of my life in large organizations, military and the education system, and the first thing you learned in orientation was how to set up your retirement to get teh most bang for your invested dollar.

But nowhere did I learn, and I spent a lot of years working in schools, how to take care of my own life and provide for my family without relying on a big organization to do that for me.

When I first signed up to the WF, back when you had to buy something to get in, I learned a lot of things. THings I never even knew existed. And found a lot of folks who thought differently than my background had taught me to think.

I am not sure now, that a person starting out, could find a reasonably quick way to start making money online here in the WF. I don't kow the answer to that. I know that if they browsed through the WSO section, they wouldsee a lot of people offering the solutions for sale. And some of those might work, I do not know I have not tried them all. I know that many of the ones I have tried, with the exceptions of services provided, have not been repeatable on a scale big enough to be sustainable.

And when I see multiple products teaching how to make money through offering through offering WSO's, I start to wonder if a new person could easily find a simple and repeatable system that would work starting today.