Your Not A Success And Here's Why.

Exactly, they rely on hype and you not realizing what they are trying to do.
Looking out for #1 this is a dog eat dog business and you just happen to be at the bottom of the food chain

Interesting OP.

I totally agree with the idea of keeping your money in your pocket rather than buying up every automated tool in sight. I'd also agree you have to put value in to any venture to get money out and that requires effort, laziness won't do it. Any success gained trying to shortcut this principle will be fleeting.

However I can't agree with the suggestion a new marketer should do go it alone, even as an experiment. Time is valuable, no point wasting it. Unless you get really lucky you'll probably end up staring at a dead traffic chart and a zero sales balance after a ton of effort. You could blog for the next twenty years but without the basics on how to monetise the effort nothing is going to happen for you.

Internet marketing requires skills and unless you know these before you get in the game then you have to learn them from somewhere. Some people can hunt around a forum like this and piece things together for themselves but others need a more structured learning process.

My advice for newcomers or people who haven't made the breakthrough yet is to do their THOROUGH research here on this forum, find a good product recommendation (preferably old school - which is as good today as it ever was and will be making a comeback, wait and see) and, as the OP suggests, stick to it and see it through.

Stay off the mailing lists and out of the review forums, you don't need the distractions if you are really focusing and you can't buy anything if you don't know about it.

Don't try to go it alone though, there are sub-$100 products out there that can teach you all you need to know in a quarter of the time (or less) than it would take to figure it out yourself.

Once you're making money then set a percentage of it aside each month and use it as a fund to further your IM education. Never stop learning but make sure your learning leads to action every time.

Don't kill yourself from the get go by picking a dead niche. Pick a niche with buyers - no really. Nobody cares about what you love they only care if you can give them what they need and do it at a price that delivers more value than the money they are parting with. If you're lucky enough to be an expert or enthusiast in a profitable niche then great, go for it but otherwise go where the market already is, don't try to bring it to you.

You might also want to bear in mind the search engines and advertising networks are getting harder and harder to game, if that's the game you are thinking of playing. Give it a couple more years and a lot of these automated tools will be ineffective. When the bomb drops you want to have a business that doesn't rely entirely on these products.

Finally, the OP talks about these atrocious "magic button", "do no work" to "make a million" type "tools" that are out there now, a new one seems to get launched every week. It's easy to avoid these even if you don't follow the advice to stay off the lists. If it's a blind sell (if they don't demonstrate the product working and show you the results it produces right in the sales video) then the software doesn't work or at least it won't work for you. It stands to reason, anyone who could really demonstrate a great piece of software would be eager to do it and would have no need to run through a list of what there product isn't! Avoid the blind sale and you can't get "mislead" (insert stronger word as required) by these products.

I can see your already putting in the hours. Believe me as time goes on and you get a steady customer base its time for you to get together a team of writers.

I already operate a content creation site where all I had to do was write for about the first two months alone and then got together a buncha people, taught them a bit and now I'm the boss.

Thanks mate, fixed up the sig.
Staying up past 2:00 Am does things to you.

Agreed - that rubs me the wrong way too. I should've said something also so thanks for highlighting it. Poor use of language looks lazy and unprofessional, which is fine if you're on a social site with your friends, just not when you're trying to show yourself as some sort of business expert.

Thanks Paul for adding the spelling lesson. It was killing me! This spelling error is so common online that I can't believe people don't catch it. But I did not want to interfere with his valuable content. But thanks

Agreed, I just had the unfortunate experience of seeing this first hand. Literally the WSO I paid good money for basically told me to resell the exact same WSO, reword it a bit and jack up the price.

Quite frankly it sorta disgusted me because this same WSO has many people claiming it was a good idea.

By no means am I an expert, just a person frustrated

Thank you, and do know that I wasn't trying to call you out on this, so much as I think it is important to provide the most accurate information possible...especially to new marketers. I pointed out your comments because they are wrote in absolutes, all-caps, and asterisked to draw importance and attention to them.

It's usually best to suggest a strategy when offering information, than it is to imply that a way is the only way; especially when you may be in a position of authority to others, such as starting a thread to teach people why they may be failing in their business.

I understand your sentiment on not overwhelming new marketers with information. Perhaps you should help guide them with a less restrictive and finite approach, especially if you know there is more to learn about the subject. That was the real intention of my post... to help you grow (as at the time, I didn't know you knew more about site building), as well as to clear up those statements for others.

To your success JustKid