Why it typically takes at least a year for most people to start earning

Hello all. You may not know me. I've been a long-time lurker here at WF, but I've only just recently began posting. It took me about 1.5 years until I finally began earning a full-time income, and I will explain exactly why.

Now before some of you jump on me for making the claim that it takes about 1.5 years, when you may have done it in just a few months, please understand that I'm talking about "the average person" here. I'm referring to people who don't even know what Wordpress is.

With that said, here is why I believe this to be the case...

Sure one can quickly follow this process:

1. Pick a niche
2. Create a free giveaway to entice people to opt-in
3. Create a squeeze page to allow this transaction to occur
4. Immediately redirect to a OTO immediately after the opt-in
5. Create a follow-up series of emails promoting affiliate products or your own product launches

Sure, anyone can do that. However, let's assume that someone who is a complete newbie to IM reads the above 5 steps.

They likely will think that "finding a niche" entails finding some sort of mysterious, uncharted territory. When in reality they could just as easily choose "fitness" as their niche, or any other proven profitable niche. Newbies will often fall into the trap of trying to convince people to buy what they are selling, when no one really gives a s***. It could take the newbie quite a bit of time to realize, "hey maybe I should just pick a niche that thousands of other people are experiencing success in."

Then they need to create a free giveaway (aka. A report, or eBook, or some other digital product). Well, how the hell do you do that if you don't even know where to begin? Sure many experienced IMers may find creating a quick 20-page eBook to be a simple task. I now do too. However, a newbie may not even know what an eBook is, let alone know how to make one.

The same concept applies to creating a squeeze page (or a blog). Where to even start? What the hell is a squeeze page anyway (thinks the newbie)?

All of this assumes that the newbie is even going this route. They may be going another route, but I'm just using this for examples sake.

As with poor niche selection (trying to sell people something that they don't really care about), they likely will make similar mistakes in their "method", if they even have one. They will often think that something needs to be completely new in order for it to be a success. However in reality, they'd be much better off following a proven method.

All I'm saying is that if one were to enter this forum with absolutely no knowledge of IM, and they were given the above 5-step process, they would likely just brush it off because they would have no understanding of how to do each of the steps. They would then continue reading more and more (while probably not taking much direct money-making-specific action because they are still trying to figure out how to get started).

I want through the same newbie process of information overload, and doing MANY time consuming tasks that really did not have a specific end-goal in mind. For example, I began "blogging" with the intent to "monetize my blog" once I had a lot of traffic. Unfortunately, I had no idea what "monetizing" actually meant....aside from maybe just slapping a few ads up there.

So in conclusion, I encourage newbies to simply choose one proven method, and just go at it 100%. This can be done by carefully shopping around in the WSO and choosing a method that you resonate with. Take 100% action on doing EXACTLY what that WSO says to do. If that completely and utterly fails (which it probably won't), than and ONLY THAN move onto something else.

By doing that, the time that it takes to experience success will be greatly reduced.

I hope this was helpful!