Be Careful What You Believe.

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18 Months ago I started doing internet searches to find out how to make money on the internet. Many people were advertising that you just join up here and just do that and just do this and immediately you will be making money even when you are asleep. When you wake up in the morning you will see that many products have been sold and you will make lots of money.

It didn't work that quickly for me. In fact I have just had my first product sold, that I promoted as an affiliate through one product promoting company..
2 months ago I sold my 1st product through another product promoting company, as an affiliate. There is a lot of hype out there. You can't believe everything you read or hear.

It is hard to know who is telling you the truth and who isn't. I have found it is a bit of trial and error, with this internet marketing. But I am open to help from whomever can show me the truth. :confused:
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  • Profile picture of the author Tim Russ
    THE truth? Which truth is THE truth? If someone showed you how to make $1,000 a week would that be THE truth?

    What if you were shown and didn't follow through or only followed through a little or didn't test and modify your marketing? What if you didn't make money at it. Would it prove that it wasn't THE truth?

    You need to be a little more detailed as to what you're looking for and how you will identify it as THE truth when you don't know THE truth.
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    • Very well said. Or to put it another way - to get a better answer, ask a better question

      You could literally hand someone the worlds finest money making system and they could fail at using it. It's for the same reason that so many homes have the floor exercisers in them that never get used.
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      • Profile picture of the author Mike Hersh
        What I can tell you for sure is that if you really focused on one of the methods that those "hypes" showed you that you probably could make your first sale before a long time ago.

        99.5% of the newbies are not implementing what they know because usually people who come from the out side to the make money online niche have a picture of a get rich quick and that's the problem.

        Have a successful day

        Mike G Hersh
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  • Profile picture of the author BrashImpact
    Originally Posted by bedeiah View Post

    18 Months ago I started doing internet searches to find out how to make money on the internet. Many people were advertising that you just join up here and just do that and just do this and immediately you will be making money even when you are asleep. When you wake up in the morning you will see that many products have been sold and you will make lots of money.

    It didn't work that quickly for me. In fact I have just had my first product sold, that I promoted as an affiliate through one product promoting company..
    2 months ago I sold my 1st product through another product promoting company, as an affiliate. There is a lot of hype out there. You can't believe everything you read or hear.

    It is hard to know who is telling you the truth and who isn't. I have found it is a bit of trial and error, with this internet marketing. But I am open to help from whomever can show me the truth. :confused:
    Bediah,
    I do agree with your train of thought here, i have one answer, MENTORS, no matter what field your in, i wrote a long post in another thread about it today, its the college sucks thread, in this forum. The hype, especially in networkmarketing is unreal, yet, some of us have done well there, the hype in Real Estate investing is even worse, there are RE gurus all over the place when the market was hot Regurgitating what others had said, and they didnt even invest in Real Estate. With that being said, find yourself a mentor, offer to be his lackey for free if he will teach you, People pay 10's of thousands for college and learn to party, and soem useful info, yet the thought of paying a MENTOR, or working for free is too the point they think Ridiculous. I would say go find a mentor, now heres a thread i just posted, take a look, and feel free to comment from your prespective. GOOD LUCK !!

    http://www.warriorforum.com/main-int...36-months.html

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    Robert Nelson
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    • Profile picture of the author ExRat
      Hi Arthur,

      The truth is it is more efficient to learn from the mistakes of others not yours.
      Sorry, but in theory I agree, in practise, I disagree.

      In certain circumstances (very high-end 1 to 1 coaching) - perhaps.

      But in the context of the OP - IE - searching around the internet - there is so much conflicting information, and so many of the most important issues deal with secret, ever-changing algorithms that I feel that it is way more efficient to learn from your own mistakes.
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      • Profile picture of the author Karen Keyes
        I wrote about this in my thread in the War room (Are You Too Scared To Take Action?). One of the fears talked about not knowing what direction to take due to not knowing who to trust. I definitely can relate. It's important to forge some long lasting relationships with your peers in the same field, and find a mentor or at least someone who can complement your own strengths and weaknesses.
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  • Profile picture of the author MRomeo09
    Originally Posted by bedeiah View Post

    Many people were advertising that you just join up here and just do that and just do this and immediately you will be making money even when you are asleep.
    It's the doing part that trips up most people. My question is how much "doing" did you do?

    Because I think there are legitimately hundreds of ways of making money online. And almost all of them work, some are BS, but most aren't. Usually the reason why people fail is that they didn't "do" enough.

    How much real "doing" did you do Bedeiah? Not reading posts on here, not thinking about it, not dreaming about the money you'll be rolling in, but instead the actual down and dirty cranking out pages, websites, offers, campaigns, etc.

    Might be something to think about.

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  • Profile picture of the author Aira Bongco
    Here's the deal. We are on the same world and all of us wants to make money. In this setting, it is inevitable to find people who take advantage of the weak, in this case, newbies.

    In another instance, however, it may be that you are supplied with the right information but you don't have the skills and experience to rightly implement the system. So take your time. The internet is not a money making machine.
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  • Profile picture of the author mompessons
    Originally Posted by bedeiah View Post

    immediately you will be making money even when you are asleep. When you wake up in the morning you will see that many products have been sold and you will make lots of money.
    Hi,

    I don't think there is a way of just pressing a few buttons and you make money in your sleep. If there is, I haven't found it, but I don't look anymore. Don't get me wrong, I used to though.

    Originally Posted by bedeiah View Post

    It is hard to know who is telling you the truth and who isn't. I have found it is a bit of trial and error, with this internet marketing. But I am open to help from whomever can show me the truth. :confused:
    I'll tell you without any question, one peson you can trust. You probably have heard of him, John Thornhill. I did a weekly training course he ran a year ago, and not looked back since. I have written a brief post on my warrior forum blog about how to get started with internet marketing using what I learnt from John Thornhill.

    Hope it helps.

    Marc Sampson.
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  • Profile picture of the author LB
    Good thing your sig is advertising money-making products. Maybe you should read them over if they work so well.


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    • Profile picture of the author Eric Lorence
      The "truth" is that 99% of outrageous income claims are BS.

      And even if they're true, there are so many details unmentioned, that they still may as well be considered BS.

      Probably the biggest lesson you'll ever learn in business.

      Only knowledge and experience can help you determine what to "believe".
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      • Profile picture of the author Neil Morgan
        The Internet isn't some kind of magical place where money falls out of the trees, the sky, thin air or anywhere else.

        From a business point of view, it's just a place where there are lots of people, some of whom can become your customers if you provide something they want.

        Sell or promote something that has real value to real people who will benefit from its value and you will succeed.

        Everything else is the Internet version of the BS that you find offline too. Ignore it and simply focus on providing real value to real people.

        Cheers,

        Neil
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