Why Do So Many People STILL Think Making Money Online Is Not REAL?

I usually try to explain to people how vast the internet really is and how quickly information moves. Once I know they understand, I move into explaining how if you have an offer and you put it in front of this vast audience, why wouldn't you make money?? I try not to delve into targeted audiences lol

It really doesn't sink in until you have made money yourself (or someone close to you has done it).

But you know what?

It's only in the "make money" market that the skepticism really matters.

It could be a good thing. Think how flooded and inundated IM would become if it was easy and nearly everyone had quick success!

Steve

Probably since most of it sounds super scammy. Anytime people are trying to "sell the lifestyle" I think it just makes people roll their eyes. I know a lady that just started selling something like Mary Kay (it was something else, but similar setup) and, like a few weeks in, she is posting pictures of her sitting at a computer in her house saying "I love working for myself...you can too!"

That's the type of stuff that is just nonsense. She probably hadn't even made money any money at that point so she's not "working for herself", she's just playing around on a computer.

I never get any of those comments when I tell people that I make money online.

The best way I found out was to give them my best sure fire way like providing simple services and then explain where to grow from there.

I've yet to come across someone who doesn't believe there's money to be made online. After Hollywood films like The Social Network, I think people are aware that huge sums of money are being made from Internet based businesses/companies.

People mock what they don't understand. Even people trying to make money online may mock it by saying that it doesn't work and to "get a real job."

Other people's ignorance is none of your business.

In every online and offline endeavor that invovlves making money you will always have that percentage who are skeptics.

As Steve B pointed out, until you make money yourself there will almost always be that question mark in the back of your mind

Strangely enough, for me over 8 years ago it was when I filled out silly surveys and getting small checks in the mail that the question mark went away



- Robert Andrew

Right.

Also, we will call them "wage-slaves," are often very envious of people who are free.

Something to consider: your reality is not my reality (which is not someone else's reality).

For an overwhelming majority of people, making money online might as well not be real. They're never gonna do it. Their efforts would better be spent on a different need.

No one needs to be reassured or guided. The people this will work for are real entrepreneurs: they'll figure it out.

The biggest issue is credibility.

Look on this forum you have posts like how do I male $50 a day with sigs that proclaim 'turn $1 into $1387 overnight'.

It's an industry that's filled with people telling other people how to do stuff they can't do themselves.

How many people would buy a diet book/programming from someone morbidly obese? Or a sex guide from a 60 year old virgin.

At the top of the market you have guru's selling common sense for thousands and even one guru selling for thousands the methods another gives away for free.

Another guru teaches the secret of launch but fails to point out its affiliate marketing through other people's big lists that drives sales.

I think there are a lot of reasons why people are and should have reservations about the industry. I haven't even touched on pyramid schemes or binary trading or the sheer amount of crap that's taught in the kindle market.

I definately feel it is still quite a untapped area, that alot of people have no clue about. Im pleased its not saturated yet, or do you think its just a matter of time??

Don't bother. Pick your battles.

Imagine a direct mail executive trying to explain that process to family and friends in the 1960s or even 1980s.

"We send a package to targeted consumers about a product, and some of them mail us back a check or money order, or give us their credit card information, and we process the orders."

"Really? They give you that stuff through the mail?? Sounds scammy to me."

And by that point direct mail had been around a LONG time.

Worked pretty well for Sears & Roebuck and by 1900 the mail order catalog idea was going nuts (first known one printed before 1500...how's that for "early adopter"??

Just don't bother trying to change the minds of people.

Most people don't know how the things around them work. They don't know how their car works, their microwave works, their TV works...and they sure as heck don't know how the Internet works

Just leave them be in their ignorance. If they want to come around, they'll look it up themselves.

There's no need for you to take the brunt of being a one-person crusader.

Many people don t understand the mechanism of IM. Simple!

Why do you care about the others? you know that this thing works, so, don't give a sh*t about the others.

Making money online is definitely real. The problem is people tend to believe that it's easy money and there's limited risk. This is a misconception. There are many ways to make money online, what people need to understand is it takes hardwork and that proper preparation is necessary.Credibility is also important. You must make sure that who you are working for or what you are working on is REAL. Don't be easily persuaded by signs and advertisements. Dig in deeper and make sure that it's legitimate.

We don't. If your niche is MMO then the ones that believe will be there, if they don't, so be it.

It is like you own a pizza shop. There are people that do not like pizza and there are some, very few, that have never had pizza and do not want to try it. So why would you bother trying to convince those people to like pizza. You already have a huge group of people that like it so just concentrate on getting them into your shop. I hope my analogy makes sense.

al

Maybe because they refuse to believe that someone is making money from his home with his PC while sitting on the bed.
They like to see themselves doing the extraordinary by going for work outside home from 9to5 every day.
Just show them a proof and they will believe

It's very easy to be scared away when there are so many "MAKE $100000 PER DAY NOW CLICK HERE!!!". I've bought in to one or two, trying to learn the ropes, and found that none of them were actually selling a proven formula. There are certainly a ton of scammers pushing MMO products.

That said, if you learn to recognize the bullshit and dig deep enough, you'll figure out how to learn. No one is going to sell you their secret ingredients to making a bagillion dollars every ten seconds. But, if you find out who is making a bagillion dollars and go to their website, you can learn what they do firsthand.

I recently moved and have to continually answer the question
about where I was going to be working. See the confused
look on many faces when I say that I have an online business.

-Ray Edwards

I normally ask them about the last thing they bought online and how did they got there.

If that doesn't work then I ask them about email newsletters they are subscribed to and if they get any promos from that.

Then I conclude telling them that was probably done by someone who has an internet marketing job.

Cheers
Dan