Why You Might Never Make Money Online

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How long have you been trying to make money online? A year? Maybe 2 years or like some people you've been trying this for 5 years or more! The fact still remains that you've yet to make a decent income online.

Your wife and your family keep telling you to give up on your "little dream" and come back to reality, but deep down inside you refuse to admit defeat although all signs point to it.

You feel the frustration of knowing that it can work, you see other people just like you posting their success stories and you're trying to figure out what you're doing wrong.

Believe me, I know the feeling.

I've spent years going through forums, jumping from product to product with the constant feeling that the next thing one will take me to internet marketing success. As you may have experienced it never ends ups that way.

After years of failing, I've realize that making money online is less about the techniques and more about the fundamentals and mindset.

What I want to share with you are some principles that I've learned in my online journey and how you can use them to get closer to your goals.

Online Business Success Begins With A "WHY"

What drives you? Why do you want to start an online business or make money online?

You need to figure this out.

Too often I see people come online seeing the lifestyles of some people who "claim" to make money online "easily" and then think that they'll be able to push a few buttons and see success.

This is a marketing tactic that appeals to the nature of us as humans. We all hate to be uncomfortable and making money online requires us to be uncomfortable.

It's a fact and the faster you learn this the easier it will be for you in the long run. This is why you need to know your "why". Having a deeper reason for being successful will push you when you feel like giving up.

When you feel like quitting it's your "why" that will keep you pushing. Right now I want you to think about why you want to do this. On the surface it could be to have more money, but I want you to dig deeper than that. Think about your family, think about the country you live in, think about how you could make the world a better place.

Delay Gratification

We all want success now and the moment we try a new method and it does not work we drop it, claim that it does not work and look for a new one to repeat the process.

The problem is not the method (though sometimes they are junk) the problem is you and your need for instant gratification. We live in a society that promotes it.

We have instant messengers and social media that sends dopamine rushing through us every time we get a new message

So in a sense it is not entirely our fault, but it can be corrected. To correct this you must understand that overnight success and push button riches do not exist.

You will have to work hard! You will have to get up everyday and chase your dreams relentlessly. A quitter will never make a good business person online. A quitter will never taste online success.

It's the persistent ones that keep banging on the door who'll make it. So keep banging until you break the door down.

Develop A Winning Mindset

For me there is no such thing as failure. I view everything I do online as a part of the learning process. Every time you fail you are getting closer to understanding what works and what doesn't.

When something does not work the first time it that you need to try a different way. An obstacle is just an opportunity to find a better way.

Winners never see a problem they see opportunity. It's about the way you see your problems. You can decide today to see every thing as a part of the process. Destroy your weak mindset and keep pushing even when things don't go as planned.

Take Action!

This is where most people fall apart. The planning and learning process is easy and most of you don't have a problem there. It's easy to read that new book and develop a plan the problem is taking action.

It goes back to my point above. Many of you are afraid that you will fail, but if you decide that it's not failure by developing a winning mindset you will take action.

Sitting down and planning too much makes it hard for you to take action. Stop thinking and start doing!

No amount of planning will make money online. Take the plan that you have in front of you and execute.Executing the plan is where success begins.

Keep pushing forward and let nothing stop you from getting to your goals.

Focus less on the outcome and become immersed in the process. The process takes you to success. Smaller steps are better and take you closer to your goal than no steps at all.


In Conclusion

There are many ways to make money online and I know you're frustrated. I was for years until I developed the resilient mindset and figured out how to keep pushing to my goals.

You have to have a deep reason for why you are doing this or you'll never make it. Building an online business is about 4 things:

  1. A Good Offer
  2. Targeted Traffic
  3. Optimization
  4. Repeat
That is all that it is really about. In a next post I will go into detail on each.

Right now I want you to sit down and think about why you want to make it. When you've made your decision I to push your comfort zone every single day. The more you push it the stronger you'll become.

Remember success awaits you outside comfort zone so push your limits, understand that failure helps you to learn and being consistent makes you a success.
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  • Profile picture of the author Luke Dennison
    A lot of people tell others that you should expect to fail multiple times before you succeed.

    I think that if you pick a method that is sensible and evergreen, you should stick with it until the end, without jumping from one method to the next.

    In my personal experience, the most common factor for success is consistency!

    If you stick with something, and make time to add towards the value of you website every day consistently, you will see results guaranteed.

    Remember, Rome was not built in a day, and neither is an online marketing business.

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    • Profile picture of the author Devilfish168
      nice encouragement...

      seriously for me...I don't plan...just do whatever I like ....even in a stubborn way ...I see no much gain..I still doing ....

      because I keep telling myself who knows?

      Whereas I do have other affiliates programs works..

      I just testing around to see ...
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    • Profile picture of the author oppyeaunome
      Originally Posted by Luke Dennison View Post

      A lot of people tell others that you should expect to fail multiple times before you succeed.

      I think that if you pick a method that is sensible and evergreen, you should stick with it until the end, without jumping from one method to the next.

      In my personal experience, the most common factor for success is consistency!

      If you stick with something, and make time to add towards the value of you website every day consistently, you will see results guaranteed.

      Remember, Rome was not built in a day, and neither is an online marketing business.

      Exactly you have to spend each day getting better and better. Find something and stick to it. Some people give up when their success is right around the corner.
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  • Profile picture of the author online with me
    When you are starting out, the difficulty is that, if you are completely new to this market, you just have to believe what you're told until you know better.

    Although some people come here with a background in sales, or copywriting, or marketing, or writing, many don't and are all lost at sea for a while.

    So when you read a sales letter in which a very experienced marketer and his team are trying to make you believe that you can produce the same results by using their "product", as they do, little ol' you, without any knowledge, without much of a budget (if at all), without any contacts, then you get suckered in.

    This goes on for a while until you realize that it's all b******t, by which time, many of you get despondent and give up.

    So it's a learning process from the very start.
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    • Profile picture of the author Luke Dennison
      Originally Posted by online with me View Post

      When you are starting out, the difficulty is that, if you are completely new to this market, you just have to believe what you're told until you know better.

      Although some people come here with a background in sales, or copywriting, or marketing, or writing, many don't and are all lost at sea for a while.

      So when you read a sales letter in which a very experienced marketer and his team are trying to make you believe that you can produce the same results by using their "product", as they do, little ol' you, without any knowledge, without much of a budget (if at all), without any contacts, then you get suckered in.

      This goes on for a while until you realize that it's all b******t, by which time, many of you get despondent and give up.

      So it's a learning process from the very start.
      Yes I quite agree with you there.

      I realised pretty early on that the majority of the people selling the info products where the only people about to make any money.

      However instead of getting bitter and quitting like a lot of newbs, I decided that I would be best of creating the products. After I did a bit of searching I came across affiliate marketing, thought it would be better than creating a product if I knew nothing on the subject, and started making some nice money after readinf free tips and guidance on forums like these.

      After that I created my own info product on what I thought worked the best for me, and sold that. It generated over 250 sales and then I went full time IM from there.
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  • Profile picture of the author DrForum
    Originally Posted by oppyeaunome View Post

    How long have you been trying to make money online? A year? Maybe 2 years or like some people you've been trying this for 5 years or more! The fact still remains that you've yet to make a decent income online.

    Your wife and your family keep telling you to give up on your "little dream" and come back to reality, but deep down inside you refuse to admit defeat although all signs point to it.

    You feel the frustration of knowing that it can work, you see other people just like you posting their success stories and you're trying to figure out what you're doing wrong.

    Believe me, I know the feeling.

    I've spent years going through forums, jumping from product to product with the constant feeling that the next thing one will take me to internet marketing success. As you may have experienced it never ends ups that way.

    After years of failing, I've realize that making money online is less about the techniques and more about the fundamentals and mindset.

    What I want to share with you are some principles that I've learned in my online journey and how you can use them to get closer to your goals.

    Online Business Success Begins With A "WHY"

    What drives you? Why do you want to start an online business or make money online?

    You need to figure this out.

    Too often I see people come online seeing the lifestyles of some people who "claim" to make money online "easily" and then think that they'll be able to push a few buttons and see success.

    This is a marketing tactic that appeals to the nature of us as humans. We all hate to be uncomfortable and making money online requires us to be uncomfortable.

    It's a fact and the faster you learn this the easier it will be for you in the long run. This is why you need to know your "why". Having a deeper reason for being successful will push you when you feel like giving up.

    When you feel like quitting it's your "why" that will keep you pushing. Right now I want you to think about why you want to do this. On the surface it could be to have more money, but I want you to dig deeper than that. Think about your family, think about the country you live in, think about how you could make the world a better place.

    Delay Gratification

    We all want success now and the moment we try a new method and it does not work we drop it, claim that it does not work and look for a new one to repeat the process.

    The problem is not the method (though sometimes they are junk) the problem is you and your need for instant gratification. We live in a society that promotes it.

    We have instant messengers and social media that sends dopamine rushing through us every time we get a new message

    So in a sense it is not entirely our fault, but it can be corrected. To correct this you must understand that overnight success and push button riches do not exist.

    You will have to work hard! You will have to get up everyday and chase your dreams relentlessly. A quitter will never make a good business person online. A quitter will never taste online success.

    It's the persistent ones that keep banging on the door who'll make it. So keep banging until you break the door down.

    Develop A Winning Mindset

    For me there is no such thing as failure. I view everything I do online as a part of the learning process. Every time you fail you are getting closer to understanding what works and what doesn't.

    When something does not work the first time it that you need to try a different way. An obstacle is just an opportunity to find a better way.

    Winners never see a problem they see opportunity. It's about the way you see your problems. You can decide today to see every thing as a part of the process. Destroy your weak mindset and keep pushing even when things don't go as planned.

    Take Action!

    This is where most people fall apart. The planning and learning process is easy and most of you don't have a problem there. It's easy to read that new book and develop a plan the problem is taking action.

    It goes back to my point above. Many of you are afraid that you will fail, but if you decide that it's not failure by developing a winning mindset you will take action.

    Sitting down and planning too much makes it hard for you to take action. Stop thinking and start doing!

    No amount of planning will make money online. Take the plan that you have in front of you and execute.Executing the plan is where success begins.

    Keep pushing forward and let nothing stop you from getting to your goals.

    Focus less on the outcome and become immersed in the process. The process takes you to success. Smaller steps are better and take you closer to your goal than no steps at all.


    In Conclusion

    There are many ways to make money online and I know you're frustrated. I was for years until I developed the resilient mindset and figured out how to keep pushing to my goals.

    You have to have a deep reason for why you are doing this or you'll never make it. Building an online business is about 4 things:

    1. A Good Offer
    2. Targeted Traffic
    3. Optimization
    4. Repeat
    That is all that it is really about. In a next post I will go into detail on each.

    Right now I want you to sit down and think about why you want to make it. When you've made your decision I to push your comfort zone every single day. The more you push it the stronger you'll become.

    Remember success awaits you outside comfort zone so push your limits, understand that failure helps you to learn and being consistent makes you a success.
    I can give a testimony of how i started making money online. It took me approximately a year before I made a single dollar on online related jobs. I can tell you that i kept on trying and never giving up. One thing you need to have if you really want to go extra miles is being able to persevere and just commit to working hard and hard. A friend of mine always told me that there is a time coming when i will make dollars and be in a surprise. Success guys is made through trying every time you fail.
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  • Profile picture of the author Brent Stangel
    Delay Gratification
    Almost impossible for most. I would guess a large percentage of the population don't even understand the concept.

    People will say,"I don't have $50 a month to invest."

    When I suggest they give up their Starbucks or eating out a couple times, they freak out.

    It's really about priorities.
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    All The Real Marketers Are Gone. There's Nothing Left But Weak, Sniveling Wanna-Bees!
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    • Profile picture of the author oppyeaunome
      Brent I totally agree. When I was complaining that I did not have money to invest for buying traffic I realized that I was spending money on things I did not need.

      After look at this I asked myself "what could I do to save more money?". I found out that I had cable - didn't need it - and many other things that u could cut out and I did.

      As you said "what are your priorities?" and how bad do you want to be successful?
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    • Originally Posted by Brent Stangel View Post

      Almost impossible for most. I would guess a large percentage of the population don't even understand the concept.

      People will say,"I don't have $50 a month to invest."

      When I suggest they give up their Starbucks or eating out a couple times, they freak out.

      It's really about priorities.
      This is so true my friend. One thing I've notice is that people aren't willing to put in the time to make something work. They expect whatever they are doing to magically make them money and I always tell them things don't often work like that. This is not the movies where if you build it they will come, forget that type of mentality. What the movies don't tell you is that you have to put in the time to get people to even notice you.

      Just to give a short background. I've been making money online since 2013 after starting my own web and graphic design business. Back then things were a bit difficult but recently things have been getting better. Currently earning just under $10 per day from Revenue Sharing alone. This figure is expected to grow to $50 per day in the coming weeks and it's not magic it's from spending countless hours in front of the computer trying to make things work.

      I just want to say to everyone reading this thread not to give up on your dreams. Everyone goes through difficult times but it's the ones who put in the extra effort and time who eventually succeed at making their dreams come true.

      P.S. For those of you who are ready to give up, send me a PM and I will help you make some money online through Revenue Sharing.
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