Does anyone suffer from.....

After 5 years struggling online back in 2007 or so, I used to buy all sorts of products that promised me the world. Back then, there was not a whole lot of information like there is today. The one thing that really made a huge difference for me is finding the right mentor. When you know someone is doing really well and is willing to teach others, you are bound to succeed if you just put your ego and do what they say.

But the biggest problem today is that there are many bad goo-roos who teach stuff that they don't really use.

There are some guys and gals who are doing really well and teach all that they do online to make things really work for them.

Unsubscribe from every list you aren't really using or intently interested in getting value from.

I subscribe to TWO marketers. One purely for entertainment and the other to keep an eye on what he is doing.

Remember you cannot duplicate the efforts of the rich and famous without their resources. A successful IMer can throw money at traffic all day long, and force their funnel to work. You cannot.

Cheap clicks, expensive clicks...doesn't matter. Anyone who concentrates on the cost of traffic in isolation is a fool. $2 clicks or even $25 clicks are fine--IF you are making enough on the sale to cover the expense of getting there. Concentrate on ROI.

"I got 2 cent clicks!"

"Yeah, but did you make any MONEY?"

"Um, no."

Make sure you're focused on the right things.

Traffic

and

Conversion.

Don't overcomplicate.

That's all you need to focus on. Traffic, Conversion, ROI.

It costs you something, even if it's "only" your time (that's my most important asset), to get that traffic. Hopefully, if you're smart, it's pre-qualified.

Then you have to fully qualify and Convert it into buyers.

Then you'll have an ROI.

So your clicks are $1 each. OK.

And your sale price is $100.

That means, ignoring the "fixed costs" of the website dev, hosting, etc., you can blow a whopping $90-99...MAYBE EVEN MORE if you have a back end offer...to get that sale.

Better have that back end offer, huh.

What I see in this forum is far too much concentration on some stupid pet trick to get cheap traffic that isn't pre-qualified and is therefore almost useless...and a total ignorance of how to set up a profitable, measurable, controllable funnel.

Focus on that second part.

Unsubscribe all, and get 1 of the product and focus on it.

Almost every newbie experiences information overload or shiny object syndrome at some point.

The way to get over it is to choose a skill you want to learn, something that you feel you will enjoy and is a skill that is in demand. Do some research about this.

Then get a mentor who has a got a good track record in that area. A mentor can teach you things that you can't learn from an online course. They can give you valuable feedback that is unique to you. What you learn from them will give you a strong foundation to build on.

Focus on an area of specialty and then expand your skills one at a time until you learn enough to make some money.

Never stop learning.

Pick one traffic source, one niche, etc and ignore everything else (at first). Learn what you picked well before looking at others.

At the end of the day, all you need for success is going to be focused hard work.

There are lot of "easy make money products, shinny objects" on sale. We can not rule out that some of these things won't work for you, but most of the people just end up buying product after product. They just hope that they find an easy solution to making money online.

Unfortunately, there isn't. Even the easiest method would need your focus and work. So bottom line, to echo what is said above, find what you want to do and do not give up until you make a success out of that.

I think almost everyone that begins the journey of "IM" suffers from this same problem (information overload). I know I did. We want to get there as fast as we can, not realizing by not mastering "1" niche, tool, software, etc...

We are really just "treading water" and going NOWHERE FAST! However, there is a cure! I remember reading a quote on a forum once a few years back from a young lady that had this problem.

The Quote: Don't go WIDE go DEEP! Pick a Niche, learn everything you can about that Niche, ie, market, advertising, tools needed, what forums to join, audience, etc...

Then MOVE on to the next?

Be Blessed
Chris

It sounds to me that you have no real focus. Internet Marketing is a HUGE industry with thousands of ways to make money. If you're holding an apple, an orange, a pear, a banana, a peach, a bag of grapes and a water melon, what will happen?

You'll drop some or all of them and most likely they will get smashed or squashed and you got no benefit from them at all.

If you got a bag of apples and learned all about them, you'll become better at what you do. I hope this analogy makes sense.

Internet marketing "information overload" is very common amongst newbies. Heck, it's common even with people who have been trying to make a good income online for years. The best thing you can do is "get in and get out". Create a marketing schedule that details everything you will be doing everyday to market your business. That way procrastination is lessened, and you're staying on topic with your marketing. Plus you get more free time for yourself.

Laser focus.

Pick one thing and stick with it.

It depends on your level of focus if you level of focus is high then you can't have information overload. It's impossible for that type of people.

Unsubscribe from everything except the (1) or two marketers who are actually giving you value. Not hard to avoid info overload.

Just FOCUS on one thing at a time.

1 Product

1 Traffic Getting Strategy

I am only subscribed to (2) marketers lists.

For me at least, you just have to find ONE thing that turns over a profit ( Revenue minus total Expenses)
and just exploit the heck out of it. Put your blinders own and once you have this really going and scaled up look for a second avenue of cash flow.

And as they like to say around here Rinse and Repeat


- Robert Andrew