Why 97% Of The Internet Marketers fail?

[VegasVince]

Originally Posted by Matthew Maiden

Vegas Vince,

A lot of them don't match the offer to the traffic either.

If you get a thousand people a day typing "Paris Hilton" you don't try to sell them an ebook on nail polish.

Most of them don't understand this either...

"most people write sales pages to close...I write sales pages to eliminate people". - Vegas Vince

Good stuff man.

Thanks bro.

Kevin Riley and I discussed your point on a recent show of mine...and it goes like this:

After getting a space age computer set up, all the bells, whistles, and mediums in place...it now on to TRAFFIC!

Keep in mind months have gone by and nothing as been sold yet....and we're still not sure if anyone wants what we have....but that's no problem...cuz we are going after TRAFFIC!

And here's the cruel part....some of them succeed. They actually get "traffic.".

I don't mean just any type of traffic either!

I'm talking a massive amount of traffic.....from just about every unqualified prospect in the friggin' universe.

AND THIS POOR, DISILLUSIONED MARKETER IS ACTUALLY HAPPY .....because it's exciting to get 13,000 hits to a blog.....even though none of them buy anything!

These poor bastards never had a chance....cuz in most cases...this is what they have been taught. Sad.


xxx Vegas Vince
Legend.

[Mo Goulet]

The number one reason why most fail is they do not know how to close the sale. They build the perfect website and do incredible marketing jobs but....

[Matt Maiden]

The greatest piece of advice I ever got was way back when I was thinking about joining this forum (it cost money then) and I read something that Allen (Says) wrote and in it he said:

"if you ever learn to write copy that persuades people, you will never have to work again".

That did for me. I pulled out my credit card and said to myself "I want to learn what this guy is teaching".

Matt

[innovator]

Originally Posted by Entropy4

97% of all statistics are made up anyway...

I've only been doing this full-time for a year and don't consider myself "successful" yet by any means, but what I've noticed from my experience and other IM'ers I've met along the way:

- There's a VAST underestimation of the amount of time and effort it takes.
- There's a pretty steep learning curve. It took me four months to get my first website up and product selling. FOUR MONTHS. Now I could pump out multiple websites a day if I had to.
- This stuff ain't simple. Despite all of the marketing and hype, keyword research, copywriting, email marketing, SEO, PPC, CTR, etc., etc. It's not simple. Each one takes weeks or months to wrap your head around.
- Lack of patience, people aren't willing to take the short-term hit for the long-term gain. Probably 90% of the stuff I've done has fallen flat. It's frustrating, but I learn and move on. If you don't have the right mindset I can see someone quitting quickly... in fact, I've seen countless people quit.
- Complacency. This is one I see in more experienced people. They get some success, they do well selling a couple products and make a couple sites, but they dick around and don't push themselves to learn more, expand, build a backend, enter new markets, etc. They start making like $3k a month and go into maintenance mode 24/7.

That's my 0.02 PPC bid.

I totally agree. when i see in their thread/post with "easy cash", all i say is "REALLY?" "Easy" is just used to catch someone's attention.

[ricarde88]

Quoting:

- There's a VAST underestimation of the amount of time and effort it takes.
- There's a pretty steep learning curve. It took me four months to get my first website up and product selling. FOUR MONTHS. Now I could pump out multiple websites a day if I had to.
- This stuff ain't simple. Despite all of the marketing and hype, keyword research, copywriting, email marketing, SEO, PPC, CTR, etc., etc. It's not simple. Each one takes weeks or months to wrap your head around.

I totally agree with the three mentioned. It took me about a month to personally learn HTML and more than a year to learn SEO. Up until now I still can say that Im still on the road in learning SEO (almost everybody is)

[sega001]

To be very blunt about your question. . . .

I believe most don't succeed because they do not know the number one skill it takes to make money . . . 'SELL'

If you want to ever make real money in life you have to know how to sell. Period.

If you are not a salesmen then you cannot succeed at this game. All successful marketers are great salesmen.

Selling is a skill. Selling is an art. If you do not like to sell then IM is not for you. . . .

Also most people that are not succeeding is because they are NOT meant to do this.

People that succeed in life are doing what they were purposed to do. Its their calling. When you are in your divine purpose things will just flow for you.

After many years of trying maybe its time to try something else. Persistence does not work for everyone. . . . You must be in life where you are purposed to be.

[igorhelpsyousucceed]

People do not fail - they do not work
long enough for the success to come.

People do not fail they quit. They come into IM
with the impression that it is an easy way to make
money - but it's not.

Just like running any business, it requires time, resources and
pure dedication to get somewhere.

Igor

[Kevin Riley]

Originally Posted by punk007

Hi Guys

Its Simple. Systems work and people fail.

One of the largest reasons is because people do not have the time it takes nor the dedication. Internet Marketing is very time consuming. If you don't really love this (internet-marketing), I really don't see that you will make a future in it. I think that a complete mindset is what they lack.

What you guys say?

Commitment! You have got to be committed to it. None of this "I'll give it a try" BS. Either you're here to build a solid business, or you're just wasting time.

[sega001]

Originally Posted by Kevin Riley

Commitment! You have got to be committed to it. None of this "I'll give it a try" BS. Either you're here to build a solid business, or you're just wasting time.

Great Point Kevin . . .

That's why I love this guy! He says it like it is. . .

[Adrian Cooper]

Originally Posted by CCCAffiliate

97% of marketers fail because they are not CLEVER nor have the motivation if they are. The internet is also filled with a lot of dreams of striking it rich over night.... not going to happen...

These statistics actually match exactly what happens in the stock markets and other financial markets, where 3% make a lot of money provided by the 97% losers. It is a zero sum game.

Even the reasons are identical.

People gamble on the stock market, forex, CFD's, options, even futures, hoping to "get lucky". Most get broke.

As the saying goes:

"There is only one way to make a small fortune on the stock market, and that is to start with a large fortune and lose most of it".

"Hope", "need" and other ideas are not enough. Greed is particularly onerous.

It matters not what you do in life, be it stock market, IM, sport, relationships, health - anything in fact - if your Mind and Approach is wrong you are sure to fail.

If you go in with the objective of making money at the expense of others you will fail - and deserve to.

Look - anyone can succeed and make as much money as they can imagine in IM, but without the Mind and other fundamentals it is impossible.

Bricks and mortar business, where I came from, enforces these disciplines, but IM is just too easy -and right there is the issue and why 97% people either fail, or not even get started.

I would like to help, but I am not even sure that people want help - everyone seems happy to keep looking for that silver bullet, but it is a myth -and the reason why, right now, 97% of aspiring IM'ers will fail.

[RobertAxelsen]

Originally Posted by scole954387

Most people think they're dedicated and work hard, but if they really analyse how they spend their time they will realize that they're just fooling themselves.

I find this happens to me whenever I don't plan out my entire night. [..]

Originally Posted by keyblast5

I dont think the main reason for failure is time and effort. I actually think effort spent on the wrong activities is the reason for a high failure rate. With all the information available; its easy to try too many different things. The key is focus.

I totally agree! For me it helps tremendously just to note down a simple actionplan with bulletpoint of the things I have to do to progress in my business..

Without a plan I often find myself going through a whole day with just a few things done...

I think that 97% of the people don't fail, but give up on internet marketing. They earn some money, but not nearly as much as they thought, and it seems too hard to progress.

For me, it helped to realize that I needed a backend and a salesfunnel.

It is so much easier to sell to someone repeatedly than it is to acquire a new customer from scratch.

Focusing on expanding your current niche, sales funnel and customer base is much better than blindly chasing opportunity after opportunity.

[aneel90]

I believe most internet marketers fail because they don't have the ability to dream hard enough. To dream and believe in yourself. You need to have the courage to believe that you can make things happen. You must know your goal and run towards it like crazy, just hit the ball and run, doesn't matter if its not a home run! Just run for your life! I don't know if that even makes sense... but that's what I believe. Don't give up!

[RobertAxelsen]

Originally Posted by Matthew Maiden

[..]

Most of them don't understand this either...

"most people write sales pages to close...I write sales pages to eliminate people". - Vegas Vince

Good stuff man.

Wow! That quote hit me like gangbusters Thx!

[asipk786]

hi,

I think there is five reason and From my own experiences that I have drawn some general conclusions about Internet marketing and why some people succeed while most people fail. So here in my honest opinion, are some of the main reasons why many online marketers fail:

1. Lack of key marketing basics, overwhelmed with information, lack of necessary skills, lack of time and resources, lack of persistence.

Thank's

[centextkt]

Originally Posted by djjayd

But I can tell you one thing, that 97% of people that fail, its not all their fault. Some of them, maybe are not doing anything with training they are provided, but IN MY OPINION, most are failing due to the outright LIES that these systems tell you how easy it is to make money online. It is a shame because the internet is such a wonderful place with so much opportunity and yet people in our society take advantage of others just for money.

Here, here... and what a shame ethically that this is true. But there are scam artists that prey upon poeple in the brick-and-mortar world as well.