Run For Your Life...

It's kind of hard, especially for beginners, to tell who to listen to, isn't it? A lot of people talk a good game and claim to make a lot of money. It takes a while to start reading through the lines and get a good idea of who uses methods that are worth emulating and who doesn't.

looking at photoshoped clickbank earnings and fake testimonials keeps going hard

I agree. I've only been into IM for about a year or more, and it took me the first nine months or so to figure out a system that worked consistently and who to listen to. I also had to find a niche that I wanted to stick with, and to figure out how to make money without just being a spammer or putting out crap with ads everywhere. Now I know what I'm doing (or at least I think so), and my sales growth goes up each month (this is my best month, despite the economy). Sure, I have not hit the numbers you see people touting all over the web ($500 a week on Adsense; make an ebook and get rich; etc.), but I see a solid business for myself slowly forming from the ground up. Plus, I've learned a lot of skills, so what I can continue to grow my business rather then wait until someone "reveals" the next secret and I try and jump on it.

So if you don't fail at first, from my experience, you are also not likely to succeed in the long run.

...where did you get these stats???:confused:

There's something to be said about persistence in this business. People aren't going to be wealthy overnight and sometims they have to work towards making sales. Great point though. If what you're doing isn't working then change your approach or move onto something else.

My Dad says that. I agree with you - I kind of shy away from a lot of stuff I see and try to think outside the box.

The problem lies in knowing the difference.

Jason,

Should we PM you to learn more? You haven't really pointed us in the direction of the 0.1% Unless, we are supposed to follow your link.

Having a solid net business model to begin with solves a lot of problems.

Newbies only have a few good choices easiest for newbies such as...

- Niche Affiliate Model
- CPA Model
- Adsense Model

Newbies shouldn't bother trying to sell "how to make money" stuff and that will increase their chances of success.

A lot of the supposed and real newbie confusion comes about because there are so many methods of generating visits and many newbies get net business models confused with traffic generation.

But if newbie selects a proven net biz model, it will cut down on lots of confusion.

TL

Hey everyone,

The only REAL way to succeed online is to follow someone (or a group) of successful individuals - obviously if they are successful online then they must KNOW what they are doing or know someone who knows what they are doing.

"Identify and align" as my friend Tom Beal says.

Internet marketing is just a numbers game (like any business)

In IM leverage is a MASSIVE part of the jigsaw. Levergaing other top marketers WILL make you successful in time.

...OK, there is work that goes with this, but you would STILL have to do all the SAME work without the leverage - and it would take you longer to achieve ANY form of success to measure and scale up.

Then again, some of the top marketers were ALREADY successful in OTHER areas BEFORE IM, so who knows if it is the real secret.

However, everyone online is chasing a dream, the success the money all that stuff... and as internet marketers we all "sell to" OTHER internet marketers anyway - they are our audience... whether they are newbys or not. Along with time COMES results and PROOF and if you are any kind of ethical marketer you would use it. I do.

All that matters is expert perception to your audience from the outset, a good product that makes others want to promote, momentum, scalability and did I forget - the LIST.... but as we are ALL marketers as I said before - don't we know this anyway?

Just my 2 cents.

Regards

Ray

I am not trash talking. Please give me more information.

Thank you. I will check it out.

I, too, am wondering how you know this?

I'm guessing you just plucked it out of thin air in order to make your point. Nothing wrong with that but, on the other hand, if it's actually a statement of fact, where does it come from?

Tommy.

Hi Jason! Yeah, I'm one of 'em.

I have been working on my project for three years full time, seven days a week, 14 to 16 hours a day. (Thank God I have a pension!)

I know the definition of insanity, but I am not doing the same thing. As time passes, I learn and improve and I get closer to my goal. I expect to launch in March with a WSO to see if I can find some interested JV partners or affiliates. A public launch will follow shortly after that.

If I fail? The product has, IMHO, unbeatable quality and value, so failure will mean I have still more to learn. Besides, this is not entirely about money, a lot has to do with helping young adults because I am uniquely qualified and able to do so. Failure will mean going back to the drawing board and trying again, but still with the same product.

You see, I have total faith in the product and in what I'm trying to do. As Robert the Bruce said of the spider, "If at first you don't suceed, try, try, try again."

Besides, I'm not just determined, I'm stubborn!

Too many people give up without knowing the finish line is just around the next corner. No one ever said it has to be easy!

Sydney

I see that every IM person is selling the same old rhetoric. . ."How To Make Money. . ." I always wonder. . . Are people really so gullible as to keep on buying, "How To Get Rich Online. . ."

I guess it all boils down to the nature of humans. . . We all want an automated cash generating web site that brings us BIG CASH. The real problem is that FEW people really ever figure out the secret.

When I first started learning about real estate investing I bought courses and went to seminar by the trainers who were SHOUTING the loudest... I'm the best learn from me. Often these were also the most expensive courses or seminars so I tought they must be the best.

Boy was I wrong.

What I discovered is the best training comes from the person with the MOST YEARS of real "in the trenches" experience.

And that is not the person who had one or two good years, then decided to make their living selling products or teaching seminars.

To find the people you can trust, look for how many years someone has been in business using the same strategies.

I know a guy who has been in business 2 years and bought 1500 apartment units. He thinks he is a genius.

And now he wants to sell his "system" and start teaching seminars.

Yep - he sounds very impressive but the reality is that in less than two years he will probably lose every one of those units because he bought them with BAD LOANS that adjust in 18 months.

With the current market conditions, there's no way he will be able to refinance and there's no way he can sell.

So -- don't follow the one hit wonder!

They are a dime a dozen. Here today -- gone tomorrow.

Look for YEARS and YEARS of experience.

i must be honest im newish been at it under a year and now have the two sites goin and hopfully anouther two goin by the end of this month if i put my back into it. i only listen to one person cause i know his backround as a marketer and he is very good and helps me heaps but i am now feeling somthing forming
that i am buiding fantastic feeling

How do you know who the top .1% are doing
and if 95% are failing, what are the 4.9% of
the internet marketers that you haven't
accounted for doing?

You make an excellent point but your "statistics"
have distracted people from the crux of your
message.

John

Here's the first mistake I see a lot of new people make: "buying a system" instead of "building a business."

Hi.

Don't let us turn this into a discussion whether it is 95% or 99,9% who is failing. That is as stupid as when the professors are discussing whether we use 1% or .1% of our brain.

For me it is more than enough to know that I have a huge potential in unused brain capacity.

Back to the topic. I believe we can agree on the fact that most of the people who try to make money online fail doing so.

Jason have a excellent point when he states that if you fail, you need to take another direction.

The sad part in this, the way I am seeing it, is that I believe that the biggest reason for failure is the fact that mostly of the people don't do anything in fear of failing instead of doing something wrong they can correct.

The reason for this fear is that they enter this arena at a wrong personal time.

They seek out this opportunity when they are desperate, and want a quick fix to their money problem.

When they are desperate for money, they don't have the time to do mistake, and they know it, and because of this they don't do anything as a safe method of not spoiling their time in failure.

When they finally take some sort of action, they jump into the first quick fix they find, using their last money on something they probably know before they jump that is too good to be true.

When they get the evidence that this was a wrong path, they start to complain of the situation they are in, and are even more desperate then they was before. An endless circle.

If you want to make money online there are fast methods and slow, but more stable, methods.

What you need is a clear head, and a battle plan created of a strong marked analyze of your marked.

I believe this is the only way to success online or offline, beside the ability to take action on it as well.

Find out what you want, create a plan against it, take action. If you fail, tweak it, and do it all over again until you make it.

Take care.

Kindly regards,

Oddvar M.

Hei,
Like Zig Ziglar sayd, "Your business is never really good or bad out there. Your business is either good or bad right between your own two ears". It means your potential is not in some new system, but your true potential is inside you. You need to recognize it and make it work for you. Many newbyes think that they purchase one IM product and this will make them rich. Because all the gurus say, get this and make ton's of money. This is why so many newbyes fail, they don't get fast results and quit. Also 95% of the man don't know how to approach ladyes properly, that does not mean they should change orientation