new maeketers or marketers not making money

I think it is more about people being lazy and wanting easy money. That is why all of the big clickbank products flash "easy money", "automated money", "make money with one click", etc.

When I first started out I was working 16 hour days and I was not spending time reading how to make money because there was very little to read at the time. I just went out and tried things. Small trial and error tests. Many other marketers I knew did the same thing. We just spent our time doing something constructive.

Today it seems most people don't want to work or try things. They spend all day trying to find the easiest way to make money. The fact is even the old "out dated" methods still work and make tons of money. I am old school and I have used and will always use methods that people consider out dated because they WORK! I know from experience. The only problem I see with people failing is they don't want to do the work and they are wasting time.




Yes, if that method would not ruin my current income and if I can generate more income from it.

The key part I think you left out is the products that say "Only 300 available". Obviously none of those guys are going to sell only 300 at $37. It would not be worth their time. Just realize that is a lie and the rest makes sense. They will sell thousands and thousands, plus upsales, plus gain large mailing lists, and more. They make tons of money from these which makes it well worth the time to give away money making methods.

Like I said above the issue is people are digging for the silver bullet. They want the "easy button" for money. The problem is not with the products. I hate the sales pages for the products because they do go after these easy button seekers. Many guides just show methods that are commonly known. They are not outdated. Just about any method can still be used to make a lot of money. I can probably make money with almost any method in any guide with hard work... but that is the silver bullet isn't it? HARD WORK.

I said almost any. There is for sure some garbage out there.

I was referring to the late 90's. There was information but nothing like today. Today is total information overload. So many different marketing and research tools. So many different avenues to make money.

Then if you wanted information you need to hand dig for it. If you needed something done it was hand made. There were less avenues to make money but also the money was easier so you would just pick one and go.

Today there is still tons of money that can be made in so many ways. I am just saying people are looking for money to be handed to them instead of working for it.

I agree ref information overload, although the majority of it is pointless noise and the usefull stuff is freely available if people are just willing to look for it, they may have to push a button more than once to find it though

Hello mmaeb. Excellent post!
"Make a decision are you a consumer or are you building a business? Huge difference, yet every failure I have spoken with; claimed to be in business, yet all analysis about what they did online clearly showed them to be a consumer." So true!

"This is what some people are selling you:
Old outdated methods that simply will not work however much time and effort you put into it/them..
Methods that sound like they could work but have never been tested or never made a dime with when tested" So True!

To all new marketers- You must be consistent and persistent. Be patient... you're not going to get rich overnight! Take action... do something everyday. Buy courses (ebooks, videos, cd's etc.) that you can use, that will help you right away. Don't buy too much at once. Find a product, service or opportunity that you really believe in. Lastly, don't quit!

To Your Success,
Brad Marcus

I know - where has people's common sense gone? With the daily flood of
new people coming to the 'net, you would think they would use it. Isn't it
interesting how a really crummy Internet sales letter done in a magazine
or a direct mail piece would be suspect offline, but believed online?

On top of that, I have a friend who has put together a grocery/gas MLM
business that is legit. You get a monthly return just for becoming a
"loyalty" shopper and submitting your receipts every month. One of my
brothers is doing it and collecting $40 every month before selling the
business to anyone.

But - there's another grocery program that's getting a lot of social proof
that everyone is jumping on that is actually listed on one of the MLM scam
sites. My brother keeps telling everyone that, but they don't listen. After
he checked it out he ran the numbers and concluded that nobody would
every make any month with it. All the social proofing is about "how great
the program is" - not how much $$ they're making!

Go figure!!