What made YOU want to get into IM?
Hi everyone! I've been lurking on this forum for a little while and decided I finally needed to join and start posting. So yeah, I'm new. Bear with me. My names Alexa btw. 
Anyways, I was wondering what everyone's story was that made them want to get into internet marketing. I'll start by sharing mine.
It all started not too long ago. I was hard-core looking for a job for months and months. I was on craigslist and indeed and all those other job websites every day submitting my resume. I finally got one interview at an inbound call center, and I was super excited. They didn't contact me for a month and then finally emailed me telling me I didn't get the job. I ended up getting another interview at another call center that did saves and upsells. I found out I got the job right after the interview. I was so excited! I was going to be making pretty good money for a college-aged student.
I started training and basically learned that what I would be doing is upselling to people who had just purchased a work-at-home program targeted at Ebay. After a few weeks of working there I learned a few things. I got A LOT of complaints about the programs false advertising. Basically the program said that you could easily earn $75 an hour but doing simple data entry. It promised $5 per listing you posted on ebay. When they bought the program (which depending on the site they landed on was $60, or $120) they later found out that they weren't paid per listing, they were paid for each listing that sold. So they learned that they would be buying and selling on ebay, which was not what they signed up for. They were sent to a certification program that "certified" them to be able to use the dropshipper's products. Even people that got as far as finishing the certification found out that one, the dropshipper's products sucked and there was no way to make money on them, and two, they were never told that they would have to pay a monthly fee for using the dropshipper.
On top of all this, I had to upsell them a product that was $100-$200 that was basically online videos that taught them about ebay and dropshipping and such, which is pretty much all the info they learn in the book that is sent to them. I started out optimistic, but gradually I got more and more miserable when I felt like I had to lie to people to get them to buy. I HATED that. I HATED hearing people say no because they just ignored their bills so they could spend the LAST amount of money they had on this program. They were sacrificing buying groceries for their family to get this program. I felt HORRIBLE. My sales were horrible too. I just COULD NOT sell something I knew was a scam. After only a month and a half of working there, I was fired for not making enough sales.
In the middle of all this, I started reading the stuff that people who purchased the program received. I started hatching the idea that maybe I could make money online. But not through ebay like these people were trying to do. Maybe I could be on the other side of the table and be the one selling the products to other people. Except I wouldn't be selling lies and scams. My conscience does not allow me to lie to people like that. I figured that if I could sell a product that was worthwhile and actually worked, that I could make really good money.
That's when I searched google for ways to make money with ebooks. I came upon Tiffany Dow's "Building an Ebook Empire" and I read it religiously. After reading that I continued to do more and more research on all the facets of internet marketing. And now here I am, working on my first info product and a couple of other ideas I'm hatching.
How about you guys? What got you started in the internet marketing business?
Anyways, I was wondering what everyone's story was that made them want to get into internet marketing. I'll start by sharing mine.
It all started not too long ago. I was hard-core looking for a job for months and months. I was on craigslist and indeed and all those other job websites every day submitting my resume. I finally got one interview at an inbound call center, and I was super excited. They didn't contact me for a month and then finally emailed me telling me I didn't get the job. I ended up getting another interview at another call center that did saves and upsells. I found out I got the job right after the interview. I was so excited! I was going to be making pretty good money for a college-aged student.
I started training and basically learned that what I would be doing is upselling to people who had just purchased a work-at-home program targeted at Ebay. After a few weeks of working there I learned a few things. I got A LOT of complaints about the programs false advertising. Basically the program said that you could easily earn $75 an hour but doing simple data entry. It promised $5 per listing you posted on ebay. When they bought the program (which depending on the site they landed on was $60, or $120) they later found out that they weren't paid per listing, they were paid for each listing that sold. So they learned that they would be buying and selling on ebay, which was not what they signed up for. They were sent to a certification program that "certified" them to be able to use the dropshipper's products. Even people that got as far as finishing the certification found out that one, the dropshipper's products sucked and there was no way to make money on them, and two, they were never told that they would have to pay a monthly fee for using the dropshipper.
On top of all this, I had to upsell them a product that was $100-$200 that was basically online videos that taught them about ebay and dropshipping and such, which is pretty much all the info they learn in the book that is sent to them. I started out optimistic, but gradually I got more and more miserable when I felt like I had to lie to people to get them to buy. I HATED that. I HATED hearing people say no because they just ignored their bills so they could spend the LAST amount of money they had on this program. They were sacrificing buying groceries for their family to get this program. I felt HORRIBLE. My sales were horrible too. I just COULD NOT sell something I knew was a scam. After only a month and a half of working there, I was fired for not making enough sales.
In the middle of all this, I started reading the stuff that people who purchased the program received. I started hatching the idea that maybe I could make money online. But not through ebay like these people were trying to do. Maybe I could be on the other side of the table and be the one selling the products to other people. Except I wouldn't be selling lies and scams. My conscience does not allow me to lie to people like that. I figured that if I could sell a product that was worthwhile and actually worked, that I could make really good money.
That's when I searched google for ways to make money with ebooks. I came upon Tiffany Dow's "Building an Ebook Empire" and I read it religiously. After reading that I continued to do more and more research on all the facets of internet marketing. And now here I am, working on my first info product and a couple of other ideas I'm hatching.
How about you guys? What got you started in the internet marketing business?
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