Is Internet Marketing Dying?

Well said Internet marketing is just in its infancy it will get better, and even more technical in the future. Whenever their is a dollar to be made marketers will go after it. But dying hell no.... Just getting started to much money exchanging hands online!

And the Internet is a global marketplace where you can sell to people around the World from your spare bedroom. How appealing is that?

In 2003, when I first started online, I saw the same question asked at
another forum. The question was from another person who had been
around since the late 90s.

To everybody who has been around for a while, it's the same old, same old.
Nothing new. Nothing exciting. Just the same crap.

What all of you fail to understand is that everyday more and more new
people come online who don't even know what web hosting is, let alone
killer IM tactics.

So I am going to say this as nicely as I can and MAYBE someday it will
sink into all you jaded old timer's heads.

You Are Not The Target Market For People Selling How To Make
Money and/or Marketing Products.

You're done with the gurus?

Fine...There are millions of people out there still buying basic "how to"
information EVERY SINGLE DAY.

It's the same tired, boring, and at this point, annoying argument over and
over that people have about:

Long Sales Copy
Article Marketing
Free Reports
Adsense
Email Marketing
List Building

And on and on and on and on about every little single thing that you're so
sick and tired of.

My friend...if you're sick and tired of it...DO SOMETHING ELSE WITH YOUR
LIFE.

It isn't going to go away.

It isn't going to die.

If anything, with more and more people getting online everyday, it's going
to get bigger and bigger and bigger.

I'm making more money today than I made in 2003 when everybody THEN
was saying that the bubble was about to burst.

It will burst when God almighty opens up the heavens and turns this
miserable rock into a glop of Play-Doh

End of rant.

Lol! Thats so true!

Hey Fermin,

Two things to consider:

1 - how about *being* the one that innovates, then all the "usual suspects" might just be your JV partners, raking in cash for you?

2 - Being on lists is a personal thing - many warriors have sworn off them exactly as you say you have. Here's one possible take on it - don't read them as the target market of the email, read them as a student - learn from the ladies and gents that are sending them to you... what's good, what's bad. Which ones did you open/ignore? Which ones made you want to click?

Grab that free (other than your time of course) knowledge and use it to increase your open/response rates.

I have a separate junk email just for the lists and peruse it when I have time examining this way. Have a great day!

Any time you really want to know if something is dying out, look at history. It repeats itself, but just manifests those things through different forms. For instance, we have always had experts. We have had Aristotle, we have had Aesop, we have had many people up until Einstein himself, and even past.


As mentioned, there are always people coming along who change things in a big way, and then we move forward in that new era of enlightenment from those people. It's only the form which changes, not the mean itself.


People still get into relationships, they still work, they still eat, they still sleep, they still do everything they did 2000 years ago, but we just have different ways of doing it now, and that will continuously change. Likewise for these "gurus", they are just people who show us another way of doing something sometimes.


I also think that due to the overkill of the word, people have come to associate the term itself with douchebag folk who love to toot their own horn just a bit too much, and also like to feed the masses their load of crap.


That of course, is everyone's choice to think whatever they want of whoever they want, but the term "guru" itself, is definitely being turned into something it wasn't meant to be. Heck, I wouldn't be surprised if it becomes a swear word in our life time.

Surely it's better to have a diverse and competitive market place?

Thats why ONline Im is a level playing field

If only 2 or 3 people could be doing it successfully it wouldnt be so popular, the very fact that hundreds of people can make sales from it means it's just right for the ordinary guy/gal to go out an make money doing the same.

If only 3 people could be successful at it, youd bitch about that.

I have to ask you... are you using any of that so called rehashed crap ?

because it all works, and if your just bitching because you cant make it work then why should we bother listening to you.

Use it, make it work

Robert

Contrary to popular opinion. It WILL die if it keeps being saturated with junk. It's just like anything else in life... even though there ARE gonna be newbies to it everyday, one day those newbies will be much wiser than the newbies of old and they will probe more and want better quality and they will not be asking questions as dumb as what we asked back in the day.

That's a fact. Back in the day, to ask "How do I upload my pages to the web?" was the newbie question of the year... Now, newbies still ask that, but many of them won't and don't need to because there's so much more info easily available about FTP and so on, with video tutorials we would have killed for in the 90's.

Years from now, some of what you think are top level advanced skills will be entry level basic stuff or at least widely known and all the great new ebooks of today will be outdated.

So, to answer your question different to what others have posted so far...

Yes, it is dying compared to what it is really meant to be and what once was. That's because it is not half as healthy as it once was.

There are far less real business people involved in IM today and far more opportunity seekers who couldn't care less about building reputations over years, it's all about the money for majority of IMers now and when something gets to be like that, trust it IS dying and will die because though money makes the world go round, the love of money is the root of all evil and evil can never prevail over good forever, since truth even if it is hidden for 20 years will come out boldly eventually one day and everyone who was being fooled will see the light of day. At which point, death will come to that B.S. industry.

Unless people change (hardly likely to happen) and stop believing liars in IM over those who prefer to be real, yes, IM the way we know it and the way the less than fully honest people run it is dying and will die eventually if it continues that way.

When? I can't say.

But you remember the good old days of direct mail? You remember the good old days of the CD with 600 reports you could sell or give away? What happened to all that junk? ...

DEATH.

All things die anyway. It will die one way or another or MORPH into something totally different. Only the future can tell exactly what will happen. But some things are certain.

The way you build sites now will change. The way you update them will change. The way you create content for your sites will change. The way you monetize your site will evolve and be different and there will be new ways in 10 - 20 years.

Take that from someone who was here when it all started not those who are here when it is what they can see. If someone had told me in 1997 that people would only want to make money by lOUTRIGHT lying and cheating and that the majority would follow THEM and not the other half who prefer to run honest businesses as best as they humanly can, I'd have laughed my head off. Fast forward 13 years, I would have been wrong.

One good thing will come from the extinction of these weaklings...

Those of us who STICK to our guns and do the right thing, build reputations and keep them strong. Keep changing with the times to improve what we offer, our own IM businesses will be the Guinesses and Fords of this industry.

But you have to be able to stick to those guns and not fall for trying the cheap, fast ways that don't last. That's tougher for 99% of people than you think, so if you're in the 1%, SMILE... their days are numbered, yours?

Let's wait and see

By the way, one poster whom I highly respect mentioned that "If you're at the point where you are not learning anything new then it simply means that you have all the information you need to start teaching to the new comers."

Now the latter state in quotes is true to the extent where it says... "you are not learning anything new"... The fact is simply that...

It's IMPOSSIBLE to NOT be able to learn ANYTHING new. That just can not be done. There will ALWAYS be something new to learn. Believe that.

You may reach a saturation point personally where you DON'T NEED to learn new things to be at your peak (and that will only last you so long anyway), but you will ALWAYS have something new you can learn. Don't kid yourself otherwise or you'll pay dearly for it. Believe that.

Many Cheers

Kunle Olomofe
Proudly Old School IMer

Internet marketing will never die. Will it get more and more competitive? I'd say yes. As said by numerous warriors before me in this thread, theinternet has new people looking at it as a way to make more money, have more time and overall have the freedom that a successful online business can afford. There will always be guru's developing high end coaching programs and courses as there will always be the the guys just starting out that now just a little bit more than the "newbie" that has a vision of Internet riches.

I see it as a never ending cycle, with no end in sight.

Maybe if you built a real business instead of riding waves, you wouldn't
have this problem.

Do you think Amazon.com rides waves?

Problem is, you probably have a poor business model and that's why you're
having the problems you're having.

Just calling 'em like I see 'em.