Why does IM makes people laugh ?

by Itachi
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I'm wondering this because the other day I saw my father purchased yet another lotto ticket, and usually the amount is of about 15-20$ , which I think is alot(for spending in lottery anyway) so what came to my mind is this simple thought: you should learn IM with me so you can actually invest in something tangible that could potentially earn you money rather than spend in such useless stuff as lotto, I mean, his objective in the end is to earn money, not bet on a couple random numbers am I right ?

Of course lotto can be cool if you win .. but it's been years he been playing and he have'nt earned much .. so that's pretty much wasted money if you ask me.

Now his response was naive.. he simply started laughing .. and to be honest, I was laughing at him too !

So my big question today is, why people take IM which is a serious business as something irrelevant or even worse non realistic, I know alot of peoples simply have no idea about what you can do on the internet to earn money but to a certain extent I can understand it but I showed him some of my accounts with a few $$ in it and he was like so that's all ?

(and the whole "you need to have 100$ at least to withdraw" thing made him think it was a scam too..)

Basically peoples tend to discredit internet marketing as long as they don't see a big check right in front of their face, but no worries, I know that will happen soon enough.

I also tryed, but in vain to explain that: you think all these millions of website, outside of big corporations, do you think they have no purpose ? do you think most of the webmasters don't pay money to have their website online ? do you think they do this just for fun ? , of course some of them blog about a passionate subject or have a political blog etc, those are'nt designed to make money that's for sure, but when you see the huge amount of affiliate websites arround, to me it ring a bell, those guys are making money, and I know it .

That was my big rant of today, I had to get this stuff out !
#laugh #makes #people
  • Profile picture of the author Suthan M
    Well,

    Thats the sad thing. A lot of people think IM is a bad attempt to make money. People sneer and look down on you when I say I run my own biz, especially one from home.

    Their line of thought "He is giving excuse for why he is unemployable, and stupid" and this folks mind you, will look down on you EVEN if you make more, earn more, have more freedom in time and have no boss - unlike them

    I used to be bothered about this, but have learnt to be humble and go about quietly to enjoy my wealth, my time, and my freedom while this folks go about gossiping back to their cubicle..

    p/s- Thats not true that if you have a big cheque that perceptions will change. I bought my own luxury cars when i turn 21, came about in radios, newspapers, run my own office and yet PEOPLE still tend to go " its either he made money selling something illegal, or he is a rich girl's toyboy". Seriously, this world is one crazy place, and you will go crazy trying to please them all.
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  • Profile picture of the author IMWinner
    People will only be persuaded to believe if they can be presented with proof that this something is real. Although I could say that there are those who automatically believed what others would say and present. You need to have something as an evidence to really say that what you try to present and share has reliability in its content.
    Now, in relation to lotto, which as you had shared to us, is something people mostly spends their time and money in hoping to win some cash. And if you had observed, they simply won't really mind spending their time and money for uncertainty, and to add to that, they have been probably been doing that kind of thing for a period of time already and yet, still on their hope of winning.
    If you can relate that to the IM business, you spend time and money but you are to be expecting something coming back at you soon. It may not yet an instant return of money, but a sure return of money along with hard work and perseverance. I will not say that IM is a serious business, but a time and work for people to enjoy in what they do and at the same time, they are earning in decent cash. It's probably irrelevant and unrealistic to those who haven't heard or had basically no idea about the IM business and are looking for some proof that people are really earning some money through IM.
    "IM can make people laugh especially if those people are into the IM"
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  • Profile picture of the author sbucciarel
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    Originally Posted by Itachi View Post

    Of course lotto can be cool if you win .. but it's been years he been playing and he have'nt earned much .. so that's pretty much wasted money if you ask me.

    Now his response was naive.. he simply started laughing .. and to be honest, I was laughing at him too !
    IM isn't for everyone. Some people just want to go buy a couple lottery tickets and not do all the work of running a business. It's fun and exciting.

    I like to go to a casino and throw quarters in the slots. It's fun.

    Sometimes you do things for fun and sometimes you do things for business.
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  • Profile picture of the author steven sanderson
    People like to conform to what feel's comfortable to them, its usually of a similar or sameness as to there elder's and there ancestors, it take's a special person to be able to break the mould and try something different as you are doing, you may loose friend's or family member's may disagree, but stick with it, you can do it and you will reap the reward's from everyone on success. I myself come from a working family background, so does my wife Elaine, my family could not understand it when i packed in my job as a self employed Carpenter to work online, over time they got used to it and now the picture is very different.

    So stick with it and be proud of yourself of having the mindset to try new venture's, that is how people succeed !!
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    • Profile picture of the author JimmyR
      IM just flat out does not exist in some people's reality. They are brought up to work hard, get a 9-5 job, buy a house, make a family and so on. This is especially true for the older folks. To them, the possibility that you can have a lifestyle where you have no boss and work from home is completely unfathomable.

      It took a long while to have my parents convinced that is a completely legit and viable way of making a living. Even now they are still skeptical.

      That said, a lot of my mates ask me how it is all going on the regular and appear pretty interested. They also probably think that you have to be super smart to do it and assume they are not capable. Once again, it just isn't in their reality that they could do it.
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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Miranda
        Originally Posted by JimmyR View Post

        IM just flat out does not exist in some people's reality. They are brought up to work hard, get a 9-5 job, buy a house, make a family and so on. This is especially true for the older folks. To them, the possibility that you can have a lifestyle where you have no boss and work from home is completely unfathomable.

        It took a long while to have my parents convinced that is a completely legit and viable way of making a living. Even now they are still skeptical.

        That said, a lot of my mates ask me how it is all going on the regular and appear pretty interested. They also probably think that you have to be super smart to do it and assume they are not capable. Once again, it just isn't in their reality that they could do it.
        That is very true! IM is not for everyone and you have to find what works for you. I think people associate IM with of course 'the internet' and have always heard all the scammers that are online from the news. They may be relating this to the internet and thus IM in the end. The internet is a big place and a lot of business and great things happen on this medium.
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  • Profile picture of the author World Marketing
    Good post...Internet Marketing definitely doesn't appeal to everyone and the people who don't know a lot about it just don't get the concept whatsoever!
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