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What so many fail to realise!

by The HealthyHomer
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I have spent the day in and out of various forums and I am amazed and saddened by the number of threads and posts where people are missing the vital points about this industry. So, i just thought i would offer my thoughts for the day.

If you think you can simply buy an MLM or affiliate product off the shelf and make money whilst you sleep, then sadly you have been misled.

Internet marketing takes hard work, persistence and a great deal of enthusiasm. I have lost count today alone how many people have been asking "how many hours should i work per day?"

Really - you want to know?

Every hour you have got - PARTICULARLY if you are starting out.

If you want to make money, you must treat this as a business - just like any other business. If you have experience of running a business in the past, then you will know that in the early days, this means very long hours and a lot of work. Why should the fact that you have a business based from your home in front of a computer be any different?

I am also surprised at the number of people who haven't realised that in order to get people to buy into them and their products that they must give value. Long gone are the days when an affiliate or MLM capture page was enough to entice people to buy. They got wise to this (as did the mighty Google) and now want to know WHY and HOW. WHY should they buy from you not the other guy they saw with the same offer. HOW are you going to help them if they do buy into them?

We have moved into an era where perception is everything. It used to be that hiding in your office or spare bedroom online was enough. Not any more - now people want to be treated as people not cyber credit cards. They want to interact with those they are thinking about joining and they want to feel that if they do join them, they will not be left in a heap in the gutter to fend for themselves.

It's about 2 things - Hard work and giving value. Crack this and the world of Internet Marketing is your oyster.
Onwards and upwards

Yours

Jon
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  • Profile picture of the author tommen
    Good post Jon! I agree with you.I started online in 2001 and still today work 15 hour days occasionally.People who think there is a shortcut to make a living online will be better off taking a normal 9-5 day job, if there are any available these days
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  • Profile picture of the author InternetMarketingIQ
    User behaviors have not changed. The mediums have changed some, but not the behaviors. People still want the same thing.

    What has changed is there is an influx of uneducated people who can not think for themselves pretending to understand these behaviors.

    It's like a 5 year old learning to ride a bike, then as soon as they do they are ready to teach the world how to ride a bike... except the expect a profit from it.

    What is always left out is the CUSTOMER. Marketing is not about mechanics.
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    • Profile picture of the author mojo100
      Good post Jon
      I agree with everything you say - it is a huge learning curve with the many different areas of knowledge you need to acquire.
      I personally find it a great challenge and love it but I work 12 hours a day - oh well at least I don't have a big commute.
      It is definitely not an easy buck!
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    • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
      Originally Posted by InternetMarketingIQ View Post

      What has changed is there is an influx of uneducated people who can not think for themselves pretending to understand these behaviors.
      I'm not sure if I'd go that far, but you do make an excellent point. Too many people read one or two things about a topic and think they understand it; or worse, think they understand it well enough to teach it for profit. You really zeroed right in on that.

      I wouldn't say people cannot think for themselves, but that they choose not to do so. They'd rather focus on the bright, shiny things and castles in the sky. This may seem like semantics, but I think it's more intellectual laziness rather than intellectual ineptitude.

      Good original post too, Jon.
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      • Profile picture of the author KenJ
        Hi Jon

        This is such a refreshing post.
        And so unusual from someone quite new to the warrior forum. You are a businessman, I can see that but well done for giving into the forum.

        BTW I completely agree with your post

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  • Profile picture of the author edwood
    Hi Jon,

    You've hit the proverbial nail on the head.

    During 2009 I took my eye off the ball a little... I put in less hours and, even worse, I started to treat my mailing list like a personal vending machine. Too many offers -- and not enough decent content.

    I've paid the price through a decline in sales and commissions. While there's no doubt that the financial crisis played a role, if I hadn't become sloppy there was no reason why my business couldn't have continued to grow.

    As it is, I find myself trying to get back to previous sales levels and trying to re-engage with my list.

    A lesson learned the hard way.

    Michael
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  • Profile picture of the author The HealthyHomer
    I think one of the big problems we suffer from in this industry of ours are the relentless websites and auto responder campaigns flooding people with promises of great wealth and success almost immediately. Unfortunately that type of marketing is attractive to so many people and they 'buy into it' without doing any due diligence or research first.

    Really, there should be some controls over what can be said and what can't - the problem is that with a tool as unregulated as the world wide web, i just don't see how it could be implemented effectively. Sure there are rules and regulations in each country and the big G has a set of their own - but it hasn't really stopped it has it?

    Jon
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