I Was Lied To...Big Time

When I first started my journey, trying to make a living online, I was lied to...big
time.

I can't really count all the lies...there were so many of them.

Let's see. There was this one.

"Free advertising doesn't work"

Well, Bum Marketing blew that idea all to hell. And please let's not start
the "time is money thing". Yes, I know your time is money. When I say free,
I mean spending your hard earned cash...in many cases, something people
just don't have. Sure, when you make some money and have some to spend,
spend what you can WISELY to try to free up your time.

But the mantra that "free advertising doesn't work" is ludicrous.

And not only with Bum Marketing, but also with safelists, traffic exchanges,
message boards and FFA sites.

They all work if you know what you're doing.

Here's another lie I was told:

"You can't sell anything unless you have a professionally made website"

Bull cookies.

I blew that myth out of the water with my very first product that had a
freakin cheesy stop sign at the top of the sales page.

I used 12 point ariel font for the main text because I didn't know any
better.

Headline?

What the hell was that? Heck if I knew. My stop sign was my headline.

Guess what?

I sold 200 copies a month of that sucker for a full year. It's what put me
on the map.

Here's another lie I was told:

"You'll never make money starting out in the make money niche".

Blew that one to hell too. Is it hard? Sure it is. It took me 3 years of
affiliate marketing to finally have enough credibility to make my first
product and break $40,000. It took me 4 years to break 100K a year. It
wasn't easy, but I did it, in spite of all the people telling me I was wasting
my time.


Here's another big lie I was told:

"You need professionally made graphics to sell your ebook"

My first ecover was made with one of those automated tools. You know
the ones I'm talking about. The edges were not smooth and they looked
like crap.

Oh, by the way...these covers sold my product that sold 200 copies a
month.

Okay, I could keep going but I think you get the point.

Stop buying into all the doom and gloom. You don't need to be super Joe
Cool with a million dollar website to make money online. All you need is
a product that fulfills a need and put it in front of a hungry market.

Will a slick looking site and $15,000 sales copy improve your sales? Sure it
will. But you don't have to start off there. You can make a nice income
without the fancy look and without spending a fortune on pay per click
if you just have a product that people want.

So stop waiting to save enough for Michel Fortin or my good friend Andrew
Cavanagh to do your sales copy for you.

Go make something people want and get it in front of them.

There are tons of cheap and even free ways to do it.