Biggest IM Mistake

This exactly. Plus starting too many projects at once and ending up not making any money because I struggled to get them to the point where they would actually start generating profit.

I made 10 or 12 big mistakes, when I started.

It didn't matter which was the biggest mistake, because any of them was enough to stop me from earning any money worth talking about.

I mentioned most of them here.

Internet marketing is a like a hurdle-race: you have to clear each individual hurdle successfully to complete the round and get paid. The difference is that when you get to the end of this course, and don't get paid, with internet marketing there's usually nobody to tell you (accurately) at which you hurdle you had the "accident": you get to work that out for yourself - if you can.

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I would say that there are 2 mistakes I have made over the years. #1 is Branding. Basically WHAT you are selling over the months and years may change, but WHO is selling it doesn't. All of the years that I was selling this that and the other, and then moving on to the NEW this and the NEW that and the NEW other. I never once thought I could have migrated the following from the old to the new. OR selling "this" to "that" and the "other"

My #2 mistake would be not focusing on the consistencies of what I do. This one I actually figured out pretty early on in my career. but there was still a wasted 4 or 5 years in there.

What I mean by "Consistencies" is developing a working system. Internet marketing requires us to use a great many pieces together in order to make a sale. We build websites, and we build mailing lists, we develop traffic, we construct funnels... Each piece is a key element of a synergistic model. If one part fails it all fails.

I thought that with each new thing I was selling, the pieces would be different. The reality is once you have a working model, the product may be different, and the target may be different, but how the system works remains the same.

If you simply focus on your chosen path to getting traffic, draw that traffic to a funnel, and sell your product, AND learn how to do this SUCCESSFULLY. You can replicate this system over and over and over.

Mistakes are a dime a dozen, Success is one in a Million

There are 3 basic steps to selling. There is getting your offer in front of somebody. Then qualifying that somebody as someone that will buy your offer. Then there is actually selling the offer.

I think looking at it like that, it looks pretty simple. Again its having a system in place that will follow through with each of those steps that is the secret to success.

My biggest mistake the first couple of years in IM was not only not building a relationship with a List but NOT even concentrating on building a List in the first place.

I got too side tracked with things like Adsense and CPA.

And I am not saying those are not viable, it is just that I needed to diversify more from the beginning. And I should have made Email Marketing my primary focus from Day 1



- Robert Andrew

Not focusing on a niche, a brand or positioning. You'll have a lot less competition when you do that. Because few Internet Marketers bother with it, especially all three

I think this is my 2000th post, so I'll make it about a REALLY big mistake!

My biggest mistake was taking 6 years to realise that making $10 a day is not much different to making $1000.

All the time I aimed for $10, I was lucky to achieve it. When I started aiming higher - and actually understanding that the principles involved were exactly the same, $1000 (and higher) days became more frequent.

Don't let your own lack of self belief hold you back. You CAN do it - just believe it and make it happen.

Two big things that i kick myself for now...

1. Not building a list

2. Not creating authority sites out of my early sites (they could have been huge by now)

Buuut that's just how things are. I once thought that having a ton of sites in my portfolio would be the best way to keep thing diversified. Imagine having to renew and deal with 200+ domains yearly, most of which didn't even make me profit

Live and Learn~

Somebody like me. However, I was able to overcome this matter few years ago but the question what I have no answer yet is why didn't I give up. Wide endurance limit, sometimes....

One of my big mistakes was not reinvesting my profit wisely when I started making a good income.

What a great thread this is.

I can totally relate to the following comments.


I find my self doing exactly this! Reading method after method that other people are earning from and thinking i can do this

This was my story too, but with 1 small difference. Instead of spending money on software, I paid 3 or 4 reliable people on Fiverr to build my links for me. It worked like a charm for a while, and I was making decent money, until the Penguin update.

And yes, I agree 100% ... build a list !

To be honest, my biggest mistake was not sticking to one strategy. I would always jump around from strategy to strategy, trying to get quick results.

I didn't want to put my time and money into something that might not work. I had to realize that in order to get the results I wanted, I had to pick something, put in the work, and run with it.

~Mike

Yep, this is just a HUGE problem among many IMErs.

The really sad thing ?? Its just not only prevalent in the beginner IMer. It's also prevalent in some long time IMers who have been switching from Program to Program for years and even decades without any success


- Robert Andrew