Best lessons you learned in IM?

Oh you are on fire with this one. I love all 3 of those. Keep them coming!

I learned when site flipping ESCROW GOOD.

Prepare for success. From the standpoint make sure you can deliver as promised to everyone in timely fashion.

Earning a large sum of money at once is not PARTY TIME. IT'S REINVESTMENT TIME.
(and then a little partying.)

All sexy images of women on the Internet are old men wearing thongs and high heels.

Live events are worth it.

Energy drinks are not your friend.

Do not ever forget the people that had your back when you needed them.

Like you mentioned...ask people what they want do not guess.

Keep a clean desk and shower like you are expecting company even if you are not.

Get outside and live.

Help a struggling marketer when ever you can.

To be continued...

I'll give you somehow a cliché answer but it's something I truly believe in when it comes to the IM lifestyle:

Eat (healthy) - Pray (that your squeeze page/followup/sales page/ad converting, if not, kill it ) - Love (every moment of the ride, you have the freedom to act and change things).

So much you can do every step of the way, so much to improve and fix.

And of course, never forget that behind all the numbers, names and emails in your list there are people like you and me.

And connected with this cluster f**k-up I did a while ago, ALWAYS triple check and email before sending a broadcast to 5,000 people.

my only regret after 10 years of IM is

- not building a damn list ...

huhu

what i learned over these years

if you fail

then













it is your OWN VAULT !!!

1. Trust No One But Your Self.
2. Do The Math, Don't Feel It.
3. No Faith Without Brain.

Find out what your market is hungry for, and find a way to give it to them. Look at the products already out there attempting to address their wants/needs, and try to make your product 10x better.

Never assume you know what's best for your customers right off the bat - because you don't.
Instead - they will let you know if you will only ask how you can help them. Listen and pay attention.

It's not about you.

Generally, the best lesson I have learned with IM is learning how to Sell. So precious that I can even create a create salescopy for my own products without the need to hire a copywriter.

if you do business, u get 9/10 piece of cake

if you work a normal work, 1/10 peice of cake

but, hence 9/10 of income comes from business

the EFFORT MUST ALSO 9/10

the risk and everything ... 9/10

Before joining any course online or any training or mastermind courses, must find out about that stuff on the internet first, as mostly those all trainings are already availbale for free on the internet, in one way or two, there are someone alwyas those have shared there knowledge already on the net. And stay away from fake people, before paying to them research on the net about that training coures, this will save your lot of money.

#2 for me Barb.

Being me has been fun, rewarding, enjoyable, and distanced me from folks who try to copy. Went down the copy cat road for years. Was not fun. Like, not fun at all. Cause when you imitate you can't stand out and shine and that's not the reason you're here anyway. You're here to be you, to shine, to be your authentic self and yes you'll rock it out in IM if you are simply being you.

Ditto on 1 too. We are so much more than we believe, related to false beliefs. What annoyed me or what I felt did not work, works just fine. Pop ups. List building. Etc, etc, etc, and, etc

Ryan

I create a lot of landing pages and PPC campaigns and something that takes a while to get used to is writing to the visitor. Don't write about you, write about how you will benefit them.

I've learned that the vast majority of the people that concume mmo info do absolutely nothing with it. They'll buy course after course and book after book but take no action. It's almost as if they want the feeling of hope that they CAN do it as opposed to the feeling of accomplishment that they DID do it.

To Choose your Method carefully.

When I started, I wrote a small ebook, paid someone to build a website, to write a salespage, someone for SEO, for graphics etc....Cost me like $1000.

At the end I was making like $100 per month which is really not good.

I decided to put my ebook on Kindle and I ended up making AS MUCH as on my website, but without the website, the sales page, the SEO and the graphics.

I realized that this method (Kindle) was WAY SUPERIOR. I ended up publishing ( I don't write the books myself, I outsource everything) over 100 books, and I'm glad I did it.


That's the biggest lesson for me : To pick the right method. They are not all created equal...

Blogging takes forever before you start making money....You need to invest A LOT of your time and energy before you start getting traffic and convert that traffic into sales, which means you will need to keep your job AND work on your blog at the same time.

Affiliate marketing, same thing, but faster. Just don't expect to make a lot of sales within like one month. You need a LIST, or PAY for advertisement. In both cases, you will either have to wait and work a long time before you make money, or you will need to invest a lot of money upfront and you will fail a lot at first ( paid advertising).

Internet marketing is really easy: You offer value, build a relationship with these people, they trust you, they buy your products or products of other people, and that's pretty much it.

Keep in mind however, not all the methods are created equals. In my opinion, Kindle Publishing is the easiest and fastest way to make money online by far.

in addition to all that has been mentioned, PATIENCE is a virtue that can not be over-estimated

My lessons:
One method at one time: do not try overload yourself with information and projects, focus one project one time.
Be patient and don’t get discouraged: it takes time to build the business. I think patience is an important skill for online marketing.

Yeah, I think that first one is so important. I remember watching Shark Tank and I think Cuban said he was 'out' because he didn't like the Product and couldn't get behind it, even though it had done millions in sales.

Of course he is a brilliant businessman and as smart as heck but this was one time I disagreed with him.

And I see a lot of people who cannot make that emotional disconnect between them and their Market/Product.

If it is in huge demand you shouldn't be blinded by the fact that you can't necessarily identify with the Niche.

I think a savvy marketer should be able to be successful either way


- Robert Andrew

I agree with all of those points.

Probably the best lessons I learned were:

1. Build an email list
2. Be authentic and yourself. Don't be someone you're not.
3. Take imperfect action. People are too stuck on perfection, and that leads to overwhelm and laziness.

The best lesson I learned is to never give up because anything can be achievable.

The best lesson I have learned is it's about my customers and friends, not me! I don't make money when I like a product, I make money when I help and recommend people a great product that solves their core problem

The best lesson I've learned in IM is to never give up, and to never let the opinions of those who have given up on themselves affect you.

ny best lesson would be ..to follow your heart and passion

and not to give up

That you need to learn to adapt to any situation or you will find yourself left behind.. (i think this applies to many other industries as well)

the best lesson i learnt so far is

focus
leverage
make friends

treat it as a real business and not as a hobby or money scheme

I must say, Barb old girl, you are really rocking with the threads! Not a boring moment. THANK YOU!

I'd have to say that my biggest lesson was to learn to let go and be myself like I used to.

For a while there, I allowed myself to be intimidated with how much things have changed, what with all the marketers I never heard of shouting out their plans and tools and systems ... GAH.

My philosophy has always been to derive enjoyment from making my viewers happy. Keep it simple, be uber helpful, don't ask them to think, just let them enjoy, be happy, and buy. Smiling people buy more stuff.

Once I settled down and stopped using my head as a bowling ball, I was able to get started on a plan and work on building it every day. No big hurry, just apply persistence.

- Annie

Hi Barb,

Thanks for making me thing about this one :-) I really hope you don't my me edifying my coach, James Baker. I'll say that investing in coaching is my #1 best purchase ever.

It took me a few times to find a coach that can work within my means and help me to stay accountable to myself and to their program.

Thanks James Baker, you're an amazing coach. I'm so close to my first WSO finishing I can taste it.
I highly recommend James for newbies and seasoned im'ers who want a little push and some quality instruction. IM Income Lab is the best money I ever spent.

one thing i leart from IM is :

you can print money out of thin sky if you wanted to

List size has nothing to deal with the amount of money that you should make. It all depends on the quality of the list. And more importantly... it really does matter if your subscribers are REAL PEOPLE!!

the list can be

- tyre kickers

- buyers list

throw away tyre kickers as far as we could

Some things you think will work don't.

Some things you think won't work do.

When you find the things that work do more of them....

....BUT....

don't necessarily give up on the "Non-working things"

Nearly everything you do has a cumulative effect.

There are plenty of things I set up, sites, products, videos and so on that have swung up and down with success sometimes generating good returns and other times just in the doldrums.

What happens over time is the more you do that can generate income and you still leave in place remarkably all start to work together each producing their bit.

I'm pretty harsh on myself because I always expect success and even when there is what would be considered huge success by many I'm still not satisfied.

It is not probably lessons totally related to IM but with Internet use becoming so ingrained in society the lessons come much quicker than before.

To some learning the lessons of business fast is a good thing but to others it is devastating.

It is better to fail fast and learn quickly rather than get bled to death by a thousand small cuts.

Best regards,

Ozi

Not to give up... i recall years ago starting my first blog and wondering why after 5 days i was not getting 5k people to my site and day and why i was not ranked on Google for all my keywords..

Be patient and persistent.

mine are these and this helped me alot to think

how can i change these visitors into buyers and i did it !

visitors are people looking to solutions not to buy !!