Anyone else getting tired of this

You'd be surprised how many people do this.

I should write a book about all of the complaints and responses I've gotten from some people that have subscribed to my list.

Now, you might say that's because I'm not doing what I promised to do when they opted in, or I didn't give them what I promised them when they opted in, etc.

That's absolutely NOT the case.

As far as marketers who are in the "MMO/IM" niche, I feel like I'm one of the better marketers.

I send a lot of good free products to my list and provide them with a lot of good, quality free information.

However, some of them still get mad when I send out a promo.

I've resigned myself to the belief that people who get mad are probably people that I don't want on my list anyway, and they are probably people that will never succeed online.

That may sound harsh, but there are literally tens of thousands of people who think that are going to jump on their computer and work a few hours a day for a week and the profits are just going to magically start rolling in.

These are people that simply don't understand how business works. They don't understand the hours and hours of hard work that I put in to get my business to the point it's at today.

They don't understand that it took me almost three years before I was able to make a full-time income from my online business, and they don't understand that I worked 50 hours at a regular job at the same time I was building my online business.

I read threads in this forum all the time with titles like "Lost my job and I need $500 by the end of the week," or "I have $100 to invest. What should I do?"

Well, guess what? If you lost your job and you have no established online presence at all you are not going to be able to make $500 by the end of the week. You probably won't be able to make $500 by the end of 90 days.

If all you have is $100 to invest, you should probably put it in your savings or checking account and save it, because you are not going to start a successful online business with $100.

I'm sorry if I sound like a negative person. I'm actually the exact opposite. I'm a very positive person, but I am also a realist.

People have to use common sense. If it sounds too good to be true, then IT IS.

If you land on a sales page that promises you can make $3K per month without your own product, without a list, without SEO, without Facebook ads, without Bing or Adwords, without any paid advertising, without your own website, etc, and you buy that product, then you have nobody but yourself to blame when it doesn't work out.

Now, on the flip side. Unfortunately, there are lots of marketers in the "MMO" niche who have no problem creating sales pages with copy that is way out in left field and that they know is total BS.

People can talk about the FTC all they want, and the FTC does a good job with what they have to work with, but the sad truth is that the FTC could never police every marketer who is using outrageous copy.

So what does it all mean?

It means people need to exercise common sense and to do their due diligence before purchasing any digital products, or physical products for that matter.

I don't blame the consumer for all of the problems that exist ion the MMO niche, though. A lot of it has to do with the marketers who are making these insane promises that they know they just cannot keep.

Unfortunately, this means that there are affiliates who are going to promote these products to their lists, and there are people who are going to buy these products, and it's going to leave a bad taste in some people's mouths.

This is bad for every Internet Marketer because people tend to put all marketers into the same category when they get a bad product. It leads to articles like the one about the so-called "syndicate."

I guess what I'm trying to say is that both sides are to blame. There are dishonest marketers who put out products that are sheer junk, and then there are consumers who decide to believe the hype even though deep down inside they know it's crap.

The message here is people need to be real. Think about the product you are going to buy. If someone had discovered a method or system that would allow them to make $3K per month without a list, website, etc, why on earth would they need to turn around and sell it to others for $7?

They wouldn't. They would keep it to themselves and exploit it for as long as they possibly could and they would probably even denounce the method so others wouldn't try it.

Does that mean that all "MMO" products are garbage? Absolutely not. There are tons of great products and software out there that I've used to successfully help me build my business, and those are the products that I'm going to promote to my subscribers because they are proven to work and proven to help.

That's how you build a good relationship with your list and that's how you get them to buy through you and not the dozens of other marketers who have promoted the same product to them.

There is a right way and a wrong way. A lot of people are doing it the wrong way, but there are also a lot of people doing it the right way.

In the end, I always find that honesty and showing your subscribers that you won't promote any product to them that you don't own and love yourself is a winning recipe.

Show your subscribers that the product you are promoting has give you positive and proven results, and offer them great bonuses to purchase through your link, and you are going to be able to stand out from the crowd.

If you just go off and promote every product under the sun just because everyone else is promoting it, you'll still get some sales, but little by little your reputation will crumble.

My advice is to keep it simple, keep it honest, and provide your subscribers with good quality information and whenever you promote a product to them, make a video and show them that you own the product and show them that you have gotten positive results with it.

Be 100% transparent with your subscribers and you will never have a problem making sales and your will have extremely low refund rates.

One thing I always do when I promote a quality product is to make a blog post and send my subscribers there and not directly to the sales page.

I set my blog posts up like this:



That's just my own personal formula, and for me it works great. If you own the product and keep it honest, you will be doing your part to keep your promise to your subscribers and you will be helping to provide a positive image for marketers in the "MMO" niche.