Whats the funniest thing you thought when you were a Newbie..? (This thread is getting real funny)

15 years ago

Thinking that I could make $100,000 in a week after I started... didn't know how much work was involved, but I'm now more than happy that I "stuck with it".

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LMC

15 years ago

If you build it... they will come

oh and when I didn't know about autoresponders...

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jkiley

15 years ago

Several years ago...when I knew nothing (not sure if I still know anything), I saw an ad on google that for 19.95 you buy this service...and they will send your product's email to like 10 million people....I got so excitted...I was selling new balance shoes on my site at that time...I seriously thought I would get so many orders a day that we will have to hire lot of people to fill those orders. Needless to say that not even a single order came...probably not even a single visit...that was a lost of 19.95...but I learned my lesson...

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TLTheLiberator

15 years ago

Believing that selling how to make money stuff was all there was to an online business.

Not knowing that there are thousands of lucrative niches that I can operate in.

TL

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Mark Brian

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Hill

My most funny moment looking back on it all now is when I was a newbie I thought I had to leave my computer on all the time in order for people to download my free report.

LOL

Well for me, I can't remember anything funny at the moment. I just had a funny feeling that what I'm about to embark (IM career) is gonna be life changing, and boy it is. I think I have less life now than I had when I was working LOL.

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hommi_16

15 years ago

Believing all the hype when it it comes to making money online. I didn't learn my lesson, I learned many lessons... of course after losing lots of money on autosurfs, HYIPS, MLM and a ton of e-books. IM is a job, and a hard one! I'm speaking for myself but I'm sure that lots of newbies feel this way.

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Mike Hill

15 years ago

Don't Worry Guys... (Mark and Hommi) It Gets Easier!

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tim254

15 years ago

That a $7 ebook would make me $100 a day. LOL.

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Darla

15 years ago

For me, it was thinking that All I had to do was build a website , then sitback and enjoy the traffic ( and income). I have since discovered that there is a LOT more involved. With the MILLIONS of websites out there , how would anyone ever find me? LOL! That's like looking for a needle in a haystack.

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Christian Sawyer 15 years ago

Liberator sounds a bit like me.

I STARTED in the make money online niche...I thought that was the only way to start.

It was mainly because I saw an IM guy who was promoting that niche and I tried to replicate his "success". Needless to say, I failed, but I am SO glad that I did!

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- affilcrazy 15 years ago
  
  That by buying e-book after e-book after e-book and then never taking action on what i had read would make me money!
  
  It actually took me four months of buying stuff and then never actually doing anything other than writing one article or making two blog posts a week, to finally realise i needed to do more!
  
  What's even funnier is i didn't discover proper "keyword research" for another couple of months either!
  
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Woody C

15 years ago

Originally Posted by Mike Hill

My most funny moment looking back on it all now is when I was a newbie I thought I had to leave my computer on all the time in order for people to download my free report.

Another funny moment is that I thought I had to create enough free digital reports to give away... I was worried I'd run out...

Mike Hill

Ok.. those are pretty funny.

My first foray into the IM world was with Yanik Silver's "Moonlighting on the Internet".

After I read the book I thought that I could create a site and go to bed and wake up with people depositing money in my bank account. Easy as 1,2,3.

I didn't realize how BIG the internet really was. I figured I'd be the only guy creating a site on how to lose weight and people would show up automatically.

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AmyKay

15 years ago

I thought that building a site with links to printable coupons and some adsense would make me money and be easy to maintain. Ha! Anyone want to buy it?

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mlongley

15 years ago

When I first began to build websites, I thought "If you build it they will come".. I also thought if I created a forum that people would be pounding down the door to discuss topics in it.... Those were the good old days

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Brian.expert 15 years ago

One of the funniest moment was when somebody told me one could make money online and I used to stay online on the net for hours in the thought that I would get money for it...nobody told me a lot of hardwork is involved in getting all that cash!
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shorwood

15 years ago

When I first started online (I paid $1500 for "coaching" that was a load of crap) I thought I could get my site (a really crappy one at that) ranking #1 for "make money online" after a few months of doing SEO, and then I would get rich instantly and I wouldn't have to work anymore. LOL. If only that were true...

I also thought that the only way to make money was by promoting make money online products, which seems to be a common newbie mistake.

Shawn

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seomark09

15 years ago

Filling out these paid offers to get paypal money or gifts, thought I could make $10k in a month with my roboform method and filling in all types of them. FAILED! lol

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tonymanso

15 years ago

Originally Posted by seomark09

Filling out these paid offers to get paypal money or gifts, thought I could make $10k in a month with my roboform method and filling in all types of them. FAILED! lol

I thought the same thing. The only good thing that came from that experience was roboform. I can't live without it now lol.

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anton343

15 years ago

I know a mate of mine that went out and bought a load of stamps when I asked him why he said he was starting a buisness selling ebooks...he thought you had to post them....ROFL we still haven't let him forget it.

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Martin

15 years ago

Originally Posted by anton343

I know a mate of mine that went out and bought a load of stamps when I asked him why he said he was starting a buisness selling ebooks...he thought you had to post them....ROFL we still haven't let him forget it.

That is priceless :-) but I hope that he had the last laugh?

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JP Wilson

15 years ago

That MLM was the only wat to make money on the net...

How wrong could I have been!

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queenbuzzy

15 years ago

I too, am from the "if I build it..." school of erroneous thought.

I learned about internet stuff through a program I signed up for, (still consider it to be money well spent, though) and they didn't quite explain how much refining would need to be done to get things to work.

One of the things that still makes me smile, though, was being introduced to PPC marketing.

On the teleseminar I heard, "Paperclip Marketing" not "Pay-per Click" marketing, and that threw me off for about a week, because I couldn't find ANYTHING online about "paperclip marketing" and I had no idea how little metal thingies were supposed to sell ebooks.

Don't even get me started about "dragon-drop" website builders...oi.

Maybe I need to get my ears checked!

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Mike Hill

15 years ago

Originally Posted by queenbuzzy

On the teleseminar I heard, "Paperclip Marketing" not "Pay-per Click" marketing, and that threw me off for about a week, because I couldn't find ANYTHING online about "paperclip marketing" and I had no idea how little metal thingies were supposed to sell ebooks.

Don't even get me started about "dragon-drop" website builders...oi.

Maybe I need to get my ears checked!

Oh my that made me laugh... I think I'm going to frame that one, thanks for sharing!

Mike Hill

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Kim Standerline

15 years ago

My fave for definite lol

Kim

Originally Posted by queenbuzzy

One of the things that still makes me smile, though, was being introduced to PPC marketing.

On the teleseminar I heard, "Paperclip Marketing" not "Pay-per Click" marketing, and that threw me off for about a week, because I couldn't find ANYTHING online about "paperclip marketing" and I had no idea how little metal thingies were supposed to sell ebooks.

Maybe I need to get my ears checked!

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Diane S

15 years ago

Originally Posted by queenbuzzy

I too, am from the "if I build it..." school of erroneous thought.

I learned about internet stuff through a program I signed up for, (still consider it to be money well spent, though) and they didn't quite explain how much refining would need to be done to get things to work.

One of the things that still makes me smile, though, was being introduced to PPC marketing.

On the teleseminar I heard, "Paperclip Marketing" not "Pay-per Click" marketing, and that threw me off for about a week, because I couldn't find ANYTHING online about "paperclip marketing" and I had no idea how little metal thingies were supposed to sell ebooks.

Don't even get me started about "dragon-drop" website builders...oi.

Maybe I need to get my ears checked!

This is just hilarious! I award you a blue ribbon.

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anton343

15 years ago

I know a mate of mine that went out and bought a load of stamps when I asked him why he said he was starting a buisness selling ebooks...he thought you had to post them....ROFL we still haven't let him forget it.

Originally Posted by Martin

That is priceless :-) but I hope that he had the last laugh?

He sure did mate, he's still selling ebooks on ebay and now he needs those stamps to post them out on CD

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Just_Mel

15 years ago

Originally Posted by anton343

I know a mate of mine that went out and bought a load of stamps when I asked him why he said he was starting a buisness selling ebooks...he thought you had to post them....ROFL we still haven't let him forget it.

He sure did mate, he's still selling ebooks on ebay and now he needs those stamps to post them out on CD

Damn eBay and their changing rules!!!!LOL

But, if it's still workin' for him, rock on...

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15 years ago

Originally Posted by anton343

I know a mate of mine that went out and bought a load of stamps when I asked him why he said he was starting a buisness selling ebooks...he thought you had to post them....ROFL we still haven't let him forget it.

This really one of the funniest moment. haha imagine pasting on those 'ebooks'...haha Nice one.

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Martin

15 years ago

My funnniest moment was way way way back in the nineties.

I had my own mail order software company at the time and my then business partner kept banging on and on about this new fangled internet thingy. He kept showing it to me but it was ugly slow geeky command line stuff, didn't interest me at all until one day, he showed me netscape - wow! the penny dropped, I got excited. Still couldn't really imagine what to do with it though.

So we built a shop on the net, awful looking, just a list, a logo and ring us up to place an order, hadn't figured out forms then. Did it just to see if we could. I was absolutely convinced no-one would use it. The laugh was when we placed some of our trialware on a magazine cover disk (a routine part of our marketing in those days) and the mag kept listng our site as a goodun (there weren't many around then) The phone near rang of the hook with orders from people who'd read about and visited the site!

Makes me laugh now because of the innocence of it all back then and what a wonderful 'Golden Age' we are in with it right now :-)

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Harry Behrens

15 years ago

Genuinely thinking it couldn't be THAT much work - "I mean come on, 2-3 hours a day and I'm golden!" Ha.

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15 years ago

I though I was gonna be a millionaire in a year...Ooops I still believe in that up to now..

Do you know the feeling of being too excited because you can almost taste success..It's as if it's just a few inches away from you and you could almost grab it already..That was how I felt when I started and what I still feel right now..even after a while..

I guess we shouldnt let the flame die eh?

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Learnanew 15 years ago

You guys are gonna laugh at mine.

I thought that it was impossible to make money online, and that the WarriorForum was a conspiracy.

No, really.
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- Mike Hill 15 years ago
  
  Originally Posted by Learnanew
  
  You guys are gonna laugh at mine.
  
  I thought that it was impossible to make money online, and that the WarriorForum was a conspiracy.
  
  No, really.
  
  Is this going to be the new Warrior Forum logo? (For all you conspiracy theorists out there...)
  
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Khondoker

15 years ago

Hey I am still a newbie! But when I was considering to be a member of PIPS I thought the only investment I have to make is to buy subscription of 3 companies.
And before being a member of warrior forum Reading half of Stones 30 days training I thought I just have to put some money here and there and sit back to enjoy the big fat residual income within a month.
But it is not fun that as a newbie I failed to estimate the cost of promoting the PIPS site. Even if I go for all the free traffic and free ad system there is the subscription fees of three affiliate products, autoresponder pro and PIPS Business Co-op to deal with. And these expenses no newbie will suspect before joining.
You could say don't go for other expenses than 3 subscription and try to build free traffic building system. But when a newbie sees the benefits of autoresponder pro, PIPS business Co-op and PIPS power group, he tempted to go for it whether he has budget or not. Wouldn't be it better that one knows the true picture of real investment before joining the program? not after? Stones should think about it. What do you think guys?

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indigo

15 years ago

I believed the urban legend: "A good product will sell itself"
Unfortunately, there is no autopilot mode.

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HDRider

15 years ago

I thought I could build a site and have it sit on my computer (didn't know you had to host it somewhere) and people would come and click all the banners I had plastered all over it.

No content, just banners, lot of flashing banners

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IMnwxlh2 15 years ago

I thought OTO was a symbol for 2 large eyes and a slender nose ....
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Mike Hill

15 years ago

Originally Posted by HDRider

I thought I could build a site and have it sit on my computer (didn't know you had to host it somewhere) and people would come and click all the banners I had plastered all over it.

No content, just banners, lot of flashing banners

Now that's funny, thanks for sharing...

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PS. This is really turning into a fun thread... Thanks for all the contributions so far... It really breaks up my busy day reading and laughing at these submissions.

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kf 15 years ago

Two things come to mind. I left corporate world to start my own business because I knew the potential was huge --- the funny thing? I therefore believed that everyone would see the huge potential of the Internet. It was the mid-90's and I was selling directory/portal space to holistic health providers. Trying to marry those two markets was an uphill battle and a real lesson in finding what the market wants, not trying to sell them what you think is hot.

I was totally new to direct sales, building a business I really believed in but I can't count the hours I spent trying to educate people about what the Internet was. Just ahead of the curve - fast forward a bit and it was like selling candy to a baby.

The other thing still makes me laugh. I came from corporate world and had never installed my own software, etc. I got my new computer, was building sites using Ned's Speedy HTML Mark-up Tool (sadly long gone). This was pre-FrontPage even - I was one of the beta testers.

I had found another html builder and starting using it along with Ned's Speedy Mark-up.

One day I found this icon that looked like a big no-smoking sign - red circle with bar across it - and it was on top of the logo for the new html program.

I sent an email to the company asking what the 'scary' .exe file was and what would happen if I clicked on it. I was convinced my computer was going to blow up (and I had no corporate IT guy to call!).

The guy who wrote me back was incredibly nice and didn't make me feel like an idiot when he explained it was only the icon to 'uninstall' the program. This still makes me giggle. And I'm sure they had a good laugh at the help desk, too.
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michael_nguyen

15 years ago

Back in 06 when I had my first adsense site. I got banned and I thought that was the end of make money online. I'd never make. Fastforward now, adsense is a loada crap and too risky for the new marketer

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abo28 15 years ago

Ha ha! The first site I put online, back in 1998, was only a collection of banners that advertised affiliate programs. I hoped that thousands and thousands of people will come, click, visit and buy, so I'll get rich.

After I failed, I started to think that the big marketing gurus have their own well-guarded secrets, hidden from us mere mortals, secrets that allow them to get millions of visits and thousands of sales automatically.
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John Atkins

15 years ago

When I first started online I remember thinking that I could start making a living online without doing anything.

That's definitely the funniest (and idiotic) thought that ever came in my mind. Which is, "Making Money online without doing anything".

To add more detail, I thought that I could set up a website with some ads, get some traffic to it, sit back and enjoy the money. I was soooo wronggg..... haha

Well technically speaking that's the way it works. But it's no where near as simple as it sounds. Especially when you have little or no experience whatsoever!

Lol oh well, we were all newbies once right?

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pts123

15 years ago

I thought that bookmarking in huge numbers was going to give me great back links and and a ton of traffic....actually I ended up creating a pile of duplicate content and my site crashed horribly....hell that wasn't all that long ago ...I'm still a newbie, trying to recover from that disaster ! lol actually I didn't find it all that funny at the time....

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Jeremy Kelsall

15 years ago

I thought you had to use FTP to build a squidoo lens

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Steven Fullman

15 years ago

Funniest Thought?

That you suckers WEREN'T my target market

Joking, of course.

Biggest mistake...my 'thing' has to be absolutely perfect.

'Perfect' as in...equal in value to one of the big launches.

...then I realised the big launches are organised by lots of people. And I'm not lots of people. I'm one person.

That's called an epiphany where I come from...

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Diane S

15 years ago

I thought if I blogged long and hard enough, an editor of a publishing company would come across my free wordpress blog, read my fantastic writing, send me an email and offer me a book deal...

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Edgar Moreno

15 years ago

I would have to say it was when I built my entire site with a partner of mine for over a month on Frontpage making it perfect and exactly what I envisioned and then not knowing how to upload it to our web hosting site so we went with a generic template and copy/paste phrases. That was about a year ago.

Btw, that paperclip marketing post actually made me laugh out loud. Priceless.

But the winner in my opinion has to be the no content website with banners plastered everywhere waiting for it to generate a million dollars. =D

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TK6863

15 years ago

I thought I'd learn something of substance on warrior.com.

Just kidding.

I've been humbled reading this forum.

Luckily you guys are in the top 5% or less ... so comparatively speaking I have something to offer the masses.

This is an extraordinary resource to say the least.

Jeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.

The more I read this shit the more ... my sel

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Jay-3

15 years ago

Leaving my computer on all night, per Allen Says, so we could get all that spam out.

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John Durham 15 years ago

That i could make money "filling out forms online" (lol not really). Seriously, the first place I came to was the warrior forum, so the first thing I learned was the value of "white space" . That was the big thing that week.

In truth: Building what I thought was a website in "front page", then not knowing how to upload it, then finally uploading, and sending prospective clients to it, only to find out that my computer was the only one it looked good on! On everyone else's it looked like a bunch of jumbled up crapola...

Eventually I just gave up, got some investment capital for my company, and hired a team of real web designers.
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Don Schenk

15 years ago

I built a 15 page site using Window's Notepad and expected traffic and therefore sales to magically come to me.

When nothing happened I became convinced the Internet would never be any good for selling info products, gave up on the idea, and went back to direct mail and magazine space ads.

This was back when the only place you could get a domain name in the US was from network solutions. AAAArrrrrgggggghhhhhhh

:-Don - dumb, dumb, Don

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Diana Lane

15 years ago

I can't remember my initial misunderstandings when I first thought of making money from the net, because it was that long ago, but I do remember when I first encountered eBay as a buyer. Whenever I read 'this listing has been revised' - or however it is that eBay phrase their Awful Warnings - I thought it meant that the seller had attempted something shady and was now trying to cover it up. 'This item has been re-listed' was read by me as 'This seller couldn't shift this crock of rubbish the first time around so is now having another crack at it'.

Then I became an eBay seller, full time for a couple of years, and realised that eBay change their policies so often that sellers are either regularly forced to revise their listings (if there have been no bids or sales) so that they are not in breach of the new rules, or to relist. I also realised that it often took more than seven days to unite an item with a buyer, and that re-listing was cheaper than listing and not a crime. I was pretty soon revising my opinions, not to mention my listings. Which was just as well, otherwise my eBay fees would have been astronomical. Well, more astronomical

There have been some great responses to the OP, but I think my favourite was the website which sat on it's owner's hard drive because he didn't realise it had to be uploaded to the internet before anyone could see it

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Treece

15 years ago

I used to avoid affiliate links like the plague. I'd actually hunt down the "real site" and buy from that one, rather than the person who introduced me to a product.

I put up my first site and had an order within minutes and the orders kept flowing in. I thought it was easy. Little did I know that my chosen niche was so untouched.

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Ty Wagner

15 years ago

I used to think that the Paypal pyramid was the best thing ever. LOL! What a newb!

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15 years ago

Many, many, many years ago, I joined about 20 paid to surf programs and had about 5 inches of viewable screen space because I had so many of those toolbars installed

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Peggy Baron

15 years ago

I wrote Michael Filsaime an email and actually expected him to answer it.

Peggy

P.S. "Paperclip Marketing" LMAO!

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queenbuzzy

15 years ago

(insert cheesy grin here)

Yeah, sometimes I'm just not that bright!!!

After reading your comments, I just thought it'd be a great website for newbies, so I went to go register the domain name...but noooooooooo....

Someone else must have been on the same teleseminar: Paperclip Marketing by Ari Sternberg

(mumblegrumble)

And here I thought I was onto something...

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Just_Mel

15 years ago

So back in the day I attached my interest to Corey Rudl, then Mike Filsaime, and a few others, and read. And read. And read.

And read.

And learned.

And thought I was doing something. In reality, learning is nothing without action.

I think I've got that part.

Maybe.

Now if that damn dragon would bring me my paperclip...ARGGGHHH

It's so hard to find good help these days!

Mel

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blackhawkup

Banned 15 years ago

when i first started out i was 15 and i was using an old free trial aol disk(or was it compuserv) anyway i would look online for for items on sale then copy the image and post it for sale in ebay before the sale was up hoping that i would get true value for the item and make a profit from the difference..i loaded up 15 electric keyboards....well i guess everybody on ebay was looking for sales as well because only 2 keyboards made it close to the sale price and the rest only made it up to abaout half way needless to say i couldnt provide and lost my ebay account and haven't worked with them again hahaha

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grover69

15 years ago

One of the silliest things I did was to buy a "Clickbank mall" site and expect it to just bring in sales without traffic. I thought, oh my word!, I have an entire store full of products, someone will stumble across it and gladly purchase something. That was four or five years ago, and I gave up after that, totally frustrated. I had no idea how unfocused that site was and now I understand the concept of niches and focusing on who your customer is. All common sense, really. Glad I decided that it was worth figuring all this out!

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Kim Davis

15 years ago

Not so sure this is funny but definitely dumb. When I first signed up to Yahoo Search for PPC (not paperclip..now that's funny), I was told to just put the word test in the title, test in the description and test.com for the URL and set my limit to $30. Well I missed the part where they said to pause the campaign and it cost me $30 in PPC charges. I didn't realize until I got an email saying my funds were low. I still have no idea how that cost me money. And who searches for TEST. Another...it took me 3 weeks to figure out that FTP wasn't something that was just floating around on my computer from the day I bought it. That was painful

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