Does Internet Marketing Suck? Making The Mental Shift From Pain to Profits

INTERNET MARKETING SUCKS!!!

That's right, I said it.

Finally the truth.

I'm sure you've had that same thought at some point. How many times have you clicked on a banner ad or opened your email and found the latest, hottest, easiest, fastest way to make money online? The latest trends of course being autoblogging and social media marketing.

How many times have you seen headlines like, "$4,867 A Day", "242,187 Per Month?" Hell, I recently saw one that said over "500,000 In One Month."

Half a million dollars in 30 days. Are you freakin' kidding me?

Well I'm going to tell you a secret about those incredible earnings figures that the Gurus are bragging about.

THEY ARE ALL LIES!!!

That's right, they're lying to you. But not directly. More in a sneaky, sly manner.

The first thing you need to know is that those sales figures always come from product launches. Here's how it works.

Say Joe Smith is an internet marketer. He's doing OK for himself. He's selling some affiliate products. He may be blogging or doing social media marketing. He may use some software or found specific plugins to help automate his sites or to help with SEO.

So Joe Smith decides he wants create a product explaining some of the techniques he's using. He does his "research", gets a bunch of PLR material then puts together a brand, spanking new product.

He throws together a crappy PDF and gets some outsourced programmer to copy and paste some code. He makes a BS Power Point presentation and records it with Camtasia, then throws it up on a sales page right next to an "Add To Cart" button.

It sells for a ridiculously low price of $37. But if you try to leave the page you get a special $10 off discount. But you better buy now because there are only 9 copies left.

Really? Only 9 copies left of a digital product on ClickBank? Really? REALLY???!!!

But you buy it anyway.

Then there's $497 upsell.

Then a $297 upsell. And maybe more.

Don't be ashamed. I've done it too. In fact I still buy products all the time. The truth is, I usually find a bit of information that's useful to me and can help my business, so it's usually worth for me because I will actually implement the information. But will you?

We'll talk about that a bit later.

But back to Joe Smith.

So he has this product, he knows he needs to make sales so what's the best way for him to do that. The answer is JV Partners.

He announces to other internet marketers with huge lists that he's having a product launch
and everyone salivates at the dollars signs.

Joe smith watches as his ClickBank account explodes! Making tens of thousands of dollars over the next few weeks. And there you go.

That's where all those $200,000 in one month screenshots come from. They come from the product launch, not from the product.

THEY COME FROM THEIR PREVIOUS PRODUCT LAUNCH, NOT FROM THE NEW PRODUCT!

Oh, the humanity!

How dare they?!!

But you know what? Who cares?

I don't. Hey, we've all got our own free will. We can choose to either buy the product or not. The main thing you need to ask yourself when deciding whether or not to buy something is "Are you trying buy some useful information, product or service to help you business grow, or are you just buying the 'dream' of getting fast, easy cash?"

And this is the key point want to make.

STOP BUYING INTO THE DREAM OF EASY RICHES

It hardly ever exists. To have any long term success at ANYTHING, you need to have specialized knowledge, skills and above all else, perseverance.

I would say I'm sorry to burst your bubble, but I'm not. Hey, at some point we all need a reality check. I know I do from time to time.

The fact is, you need to make a serious mental shift and figure out whether you have the desire and dedication to be truly successful in internet marketing. The fact is, you need to forget all about trying to make $1000 a day. You need to structure your business. You need to educate yourself, you need to follow an actual plan. You need to be in it for the long haul. You need to start thinking about making $10 a day. Then $100 a day. Then $1000 a day.

Stop buying into the dream. Start investing in reality.

You truly deserve success after all of your struggles and pain. It will happen if you have faith and strength. Stop spinning your wheels jumping from one thing to the next. Believe me, I know what that's like. I spent years searching and buying every new product that came out. But I did not make a single penny until I made a serious mental shift and began to slow down and develop a real plan for the real world.

So the truth is that yes, some of our internet marketing brothers and sisters do get a bit over the top and a bit tricky at times, but hey, no one can force you to buy anything, no one is twisting your arm. And if you really think the product is absolute junk, ClickBank is usually good when it comes to returns. As they say, "Don't hate the player, hate the game."

Always ask yourself if this product can really help your business grow. Will your business profit from this information? Always think in terms of your business not in terms of sports cars and mansions.

Then you will see it actually isn't so crazy to think of creating your own products, doing your own JV launch and having affiliates and JV partners making tons of sales for YOU. This is totally doable and its made easier everyday with so many tools available. You can easily create sites with Wordpress. You can easily create PDF ebooks with Open Office or Google Docs. You can create awesome sales and squeeze page funnels with templates like Socrates and JV Pages.

Everything you need is available to you. Make that mental shift into professional, business mode. Take time to learn, then take action. Don't be afraid of failure. Its vital for you to realize there are no failures, only results. But without action there can be no results. Neither bad, nor good.

Stay focused and strong and you will succeed!!!