Would You Consider Internet Marketing To Be Difficult In Comparison To Certain Offline Professions?

11 years ago

IM is VERY VERY difficult yes. Those other professions such as Doctor and Lawyer are very tough and takes a lot of school and studying.

My strong opinion is IM is the hardest out of all of them.

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Meharis

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Saintsfan40

IM is VERY VERY difficult yes. Those other professions such as Doctor and Lawyer are very tough and takes a lot of school and studying.

My strong opinion is IM is the hardest out of all of them.

I believe is the other way around...
Is the easiest.
No need to go to a university. Not even college...

All you need is a laptop an Internet connection and you can run
your business from anywhere in the world.

Doctors may kill someone with a wrong diagnostic.
Lawyers may send an innocent to prison.

Meharis

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Saintsfan40 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Meharis

Is the easiest.
All you need is a laptop an Internet connection and you can run
your business from anywhere in the world.

If it were "Easy" as you say it is, there would rarely be any traffic on the roads during rush hour. It's a heck of a lot more than just a laptop and internet connection

Lawyers may send an innocent to prison.

This I totally agree with. There are a lot of prosecutors and DA's who practice prosecutorial misconduct. Sad thing, most of them get away with it.
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dreamtoreality

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Jon Tees

Compared to being a doctor, nurse, lawyer, chef, baker or any other offline profession would you consider this difficult?

The thing is that the majority of jobs have a very specific skill-set and you usually have to go to school, university or at least take a training course to acquire the necessary skills.

Anyone can become an internet marketer. All you need is a laptop, an internet connection and time to read up and test things.

Personally, I think that internet marketing is fairly simple to make a living from. It might not be easy though.

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GGpaul

11 years ago

The opportunity of doing internet marketing is much greater for myself that is, than being a doctor or a lawyer. However, it's still a challenge! But I LOVE IT

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PerformanceMan

11 years ago

Originally Posted by Jon Tees

Compared to being a doctor, nurse, lawyer, chef, baker or any other offline profession would you consider this difficult?

HAHAHAHAHAAH.....NO!

There are literal idiots making a good living doing IM.

It's the easiest business ever created.

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Greg Ray

11 years ago

I think the basic process is amazingly simple - it's the large learning curve and that it is time-consuming, those are the hurdles.

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nicholasb

11 years ago

Compared to the facotry I use to slave away at 12 hours a day 6 days a week, it's easy as pie. Compared to the road construction job I use to work at in sweltering 120 degree heat every day, it's easy breezy.

Once you take the time to master the skills neccasarry to generate huge amounts of sales online, it becomes much easier. There is some learning involved.

The more you take the time to learn, and focus on practicing and actually doing, it becomes easier and easier after time.

After 6 years of not having a job, and just running my business from home, it was worth it to take the time to master the skills.

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SuperDJ

11 years ago

It's actually pretty easy. There are only really two difficult parts to IM imo. The initial learning curve and very high time consumption.

However in IM - nobody hands you a prospectus. There is no learning specification that will ensure you 'succeed'. You practically have to build your own blueprint from scratch haha.

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Alexa Smith

Banned 11 years ago

Originally Posted by Jon Tees

Compared to being a doctor, nurse, lawyer, chef, baker or any other offline profession would you consider this difficult?

I have no experience (other than as a "consumer", as it were) of any of those other jobs, so it's hard to say.

Instinctively, I think of being a doctor, lawyer or nurse as far more difficult than anything I do or have ever done, and requiring far more education, training, vocational experience and sensitivity.

That said, I think it's also very, very easy to underestimate the extent to which education (of various kinds) is beneficial to "being an internet marketer" successfully. My views on this subject - whenever it's discussed here - seem to be right at one end of the spectrum (which is another way of saying "I don't really expect anyone to agree with me"), but I think it's even not far off "universal" to underestimate that, to be honest. And I think that, overall, in spite of the undeniable reality that some entirely uneducated people have become very successful through internet marketing. As so often, one typically hears far more about the rare exceptions than about the norms.

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travlinguy

11 years ago

IM is simple. Find something people want and can afford and them give it to them with a smile. That's it. Simple, but not always easy. :p

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PerformanceMarketing

11 years ago

"Working in IM" encompasses a HUGE range of professions. Programmers, Sales team, Business Development, Management, Tech Staff, Creative Design, Copywriting etc. etc.

What I think you are referring to is being an online entrepreneur, i.e. starting, running, and selling online businesses.

To do this takes an entirely different skill set, and mind frame to being a doctor, lawyer or tradesman.

Most comparable is to be an offline entrepreneur.

And being an online entrepreneur has one main advantage to being an offline entrepenuer:

There is a far lower financial barrier to entry.

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marketerpro

11 years ago

One thing that separates online marketing from being an offline business person or owner is cost.

The business people I know invested tens of thousands up to hundreds of thousands into building and expanding their business. I cannot imagine a scenario where an internet marketer would need to invest more than a fraction of that.

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dndoseller

11 years ago

If you do the same amount of training and full-time hours filled with intense action that a doctor, nurse, lawyer or chef does...

Online business is a total breeze. You can work anytime, anywhere and pretty much in any area that you want. Beats ANY offline job.

I think the problem is that very few take it that seriously. People dabble, try this or that, doubt that it can work, then take a break, try again a bit.

Plus, you need to build an "online business", and not just do "Internet Marketing". That means making your own product usually.

I recently committed full-time to my online royalty free music business and I can see the difference in sales already.

But even when I was part-time I put in serious intense hours, just like a job. It has been very very good and way, way, way, way easier than making money as a musician in the offline world.

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PazG 11 years ago

I think that the hardest part of IM is actually finding a profitable game plan / process and sticking with it. Some people spend years searching for the next 'shiny object' and never get anywhere. Learning how to look in the right places is the most useful skill in IM in my opinion.
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