E tu, Offline Marketing?

In my experience that's the main reason people on the warrior forum aren't making money.

They simply don't take enough serious action for long enough to get results.

I know that's not you I just thought the small quote above taken out of context is a pretty accurate description of many people.


You'll find many different strategies will get discussed here a lot more when someone has a product launch or there's some other reason for interest.

The strategies that get discussed at length are usually those that have some merit.

When members here discuss something less it means just that. You can't read anything into it beyond people being excited about an idea and talking about it a lot.

There's nothing new about the "offline" niche.

In fact it is arguably the oldest niche that has made a full time living for people...check your phone book for web designers...they've been selling websites to local businesses for over a decade and doing very well with it.

Some will go off and DO it and make good money with it. Most will do nothing.

If you wait a few more months you'll see plenty more offline threads. You'll also see the same thing happen with youtube or facebook threads or some other form of SEO or article marketing...everyone will get excited about new ideas shared here on the forum (or new stories about how old ideas are working now).

The offline niche tends to create more excitement because it's so much easier than other strategies to make a few hundred or a few thousand dollars in a very short period of time (days or weeks).

It's still work though.

It doesn't matter what strategy you use when you're starting out you're going to have to work hard for quite some time before you make some serious income.


I do have one recommendation.

Stop jumping from one idea to the next. Choose one thing and get really good at it.

That gives you the best chance of going from zero or a low income to making a serious income.

Kindest regards,
Andrew Cavanagh

Some of us have been focusing on "offline" for over 20 years.

You'll find that the "crowd" follows the subject of the latest big launch. I guess once they see a couple of dozen emails about a subject, they just assume it's a hot topic.

I'm not sure what's next in the pipeline, since I'm not it that loop at all (if my count is right, I think it's Frank's turn, though). Whatever the product, you can bet there will be a huge buzz about it. It's part of the "formula."

That said, each of these major subjects has its merits. Whether it's listbuilding, traffic, video, or even offline, you should ignore the hype and plan out your business so you'll know which pieces you need to master for your business. This way when the buzz starts, you won't be pulled away from your core business, but instead might be able to pick up a few pertinent nuggets from the surge of threads on the current topic, if it's relevant to you.

Welcome to the reason 99% of people on the WF aren't making anywhere near the kind of money they want to be making.

They jump from "money making scheme" to "money making scheme" without ever bothering to actually do any work.

They get started, decide it is too hard, and then make comments about how it "doesn't work anymore" and move on to some other goose they think will lay golden eggs.

I give up, what is the Ebay Trick?

Well you've already had the answer - like Andrew said - it's not the latest new thing - it was the latest new thing on this forum about 7 years ago aswell. Some of us have been telling people how to do this here for longer than that for free.

This stuff comes in cycles. When people stop talking about it - raving about it like it's new catches all the recent newbies again and makes thing get a new surge.

There are people talking about Adsense again like it's new - it happens to all aspects of IM.

These people are feeding on newbies who don't realise it's all been said before. Their market is the people who want to be told it's quick and easy to make money and they'll use whatever angle gets the job done.

It's easy to jump on the 'offline' niche because most IM newbies have never run a business and will believe that business owners are as gullible as they are. Once they look into it and find they're not and you can't actually BS your way to lasting success with them - they want the next shiny new business model - fortunately their guru will have it ready and waiting for them.

This is just the standard cycle that is the reason the IM gurus you're referring to can keep trawling this niche for more newbies with spare capacity on their credit cards.

As long as they keep saying their latest thing is new and different, their hungry followers will jump on it hoping it's their golden egg.

The real irony here is that many newbies to this forum jump on it too and start charging fellow warriors for information that's been said here for free in the past.

Even the little fish start to eat each other in this market.