Are the "big guns" of IM just unloading all there stuff on newbies?

What you are seeing is the norm. Anyone in IM with older products use the older products to build their lists. The game is to offer something of value in exchange for an email address. This will give them the opportunity to offer their new and improved products to you. Most of the freebies that you see from the big guns are of value. Maybe not great for resale as they are being given free all over the net. Most newbies don't take the time to even study the materials. This is where they begin to fail. Take one successful program and apply it to another quality product and as long as you have a list or know someone with a list.... (Someone that will JV with you) you have a good shot at getting your product rolling.

The big secret is simply, study what they have done don't just download the product and try to resell it just because they gave you resell rights. Remember that the resell rights are a way of helping them continue building their lists. The product is theirs and ultimately leads the person that buys back to their site... ehh!!! great concept huh... Another IM secret that many miss...

Hi, Ashley,

The tiny internet marketing niche is populated by a huge quantity of 'newbies'. These 'newbies' are targeted by every marketer or guru who can get them to subscribe to their lists by whatever means possible - often a over-hyped, piece of junk freebie - because that is how internet marketing is taught.

What used to be a valuable service, review sites, has become a laughing stock because you can see that many review sites are written to a standard design and are nothing short of unabashed adverts by people who have never even tried the product.

It is reaching the stage where finding genuine information on the web requires that you ignore the first few pages of results.

As more and more erosion of product value takes place and as more and more mass distributions of 'automation' programmes occur there will be an exponential growth in the numbers of 'offers' that are being sent to marketers by people who may not even be aware that their 'freebie' programme has just sent out another batch of emails. Well, it's automated, isn't it? Nobody told me how to turn it off, did they?

Internet Marketing is going to hell in a bucket because new internet marketers are being taught too little to succeed and just enough to be dangerous.

Even in these forums, which are by far the best available, some advice being given is coming from people who don't know enough. Probably a few of them will respond to this to claim how negative I am and don't know what I am talking about. At least I am prepared to state an honest opinion and am prepared to be corrected if I am wrong - but not by someone who knows less than I do and can't formulate his own opinion, let alone express and defend it.

Hi Ashley,

There is still plenty of money to be made on the internet. There is just too much information on how to go about it.

I think information overload is a MAJOR problem for people just starting out in today's online economy. Everybody has a different answer on what you should do to be successful online.

For every method that someone says will make you money, there is someone else who says it won't work. I can't begin to count the number of marketing methods that someone has declared "dead" and inefficient.

In reality, the reason most people aren't making money online is because they don't focus, they don't give it enough time and they don't do their research first.

Like you, quite a few people create a product or service that there is just no demand for. They didn't first look to see if there is a market for it. People aren't going to buy something just because you want them to. You want to make money online? Here is the proper method... get back to the basics! It's really not that difficult.

The first thing you need to do is research, research, research. Find a hungry market where people are ready to spend money to get a solution to their problem. Once you find a hungry market, then create, or have created, a product that solves that problem for them.

If you don't know how to market the product or what your next step will be, come right back here to the WF and ask questions on how to take the next step. There are some very knowledgeable people in here and you can get an answer to just about any question. Once you have your answer, go back to the next step and complete it.

If you want to know the truth, it's not the lack of knowledge that derails most people. It is the lack of patience and perseverance. They want immediate gratification and they want it now. It's like a gambling addiction; they're looking for that once-in-a-lifetime, pie-in-the sky windfall that will immediately cure all their problems. It's like winning the lottery, your changes are about one in several million something like that will happen.

Also remember that there are MILLIONS of niches out there other than making money online, weight loss and whankiedoodle enhancement. Let me give you some other niches... sharks, bricks, metal detecting, lacrosse, gates, mail boxes, microscopes, ants, wind, windmills, hammock, implant, Azalea and rocket. Where did I get those words? I just opened up a dictionary and picked words at random. Are those good niches? I have no idea but they ARE niches.

What I am trying to get you to do is to think outside the box. Go in directions that not many have gone before. Try things that haven't been tried. Stop making things complicated and keep it simple. If you find a method that makes you $50 each month, then it possible that 10 sites using that method will make you $500 each month.

Okay, enough rambling! I said what I wanted to say and I even managed to use the word "whankiedoole." It just doesn't get much better than that.

Take care and have a great whatever it is wherever you are!