Hypothetical Question about Success
I've got a question that has been bugging me for a while. You see, I found some early success in this business doing things that I thought were fun. I was mostly doing niche blogging (without really realizing it) and even though I hadn't learned to properly monetize my sites, I was doing pretty good for a beginner.
Then something strange started happening. I was reading about all of these "new" strategies that were supposed to make me a lot more money without as much work. So like most people, I started buying products and WSO's looking for ways to increase my income. Well oddly enough, not a single one of these new ventures worked for me. In the meantime, my niche sites starting busting out crazy numbers and as I continued to ignore them, their sales picked up.
Now, I hate to admit it, but I've never sold a single product on Clickbank...and it hasn't been for not trying. In fact, I want to sell like crazy on Clickbank just so I can say I have done it, but still...I'm trying all sorts of different ways to do it and I still can't make it happen.
On the other hand, I can sell E-Junkie products like hotcakes (mostly a different class of product) and I can get adsense and other affiliate revenue working pretty well.
So you might be wondering why I am telling you all of this. Well the truth is that I think I might be realizing that even though I want to learn how to master other IM methods, there are certain ones that I am naturally good at. The rest of them just seem to fail each and every time. Maybe I need a mentor to help me or maybe I'm just not cut out for CB, I don't know. However, I do know that if I spent less time trying to master systems I can't figure out, and more time creating products for the niches I can dominate, then I would have cut my learning curve in half and doubled my profits.
So in effect, I am asking a question and giving an answer at the same time.
The question is, do you think people are meant to only make money using methods that are natural to them (for me, nich blogging).
The answer is: when you find something that you are good at, don't learn anything else unless it can improve your current system. Continue to tweak your system until it runs on auto-pilot and is as simple as it can get. Only then, maybe when you are bored, should you start to dabble in other systems.
I made the mistake of trying to master too many systems at once and although I learned how not to do them, I also realized that dominating my niches is the surest path to success. So in the end, find something that you are good at and tweak it until you own it. We all have different specialties and there is no "surefire easy way" to get rich in this business, so quit looking for the easy fix.
Then something strange started happening. I was reading about all of these "new" strategies that were supposed to make me a lot more money without as much work. So like most people, I started buying products and WSO's looking for ways to increase my income. Well oddly enough, not a single one of these new ventures worked for me. In the meantime, my niche sites starting busting out crazy numbers and as I continued to ignore them, their sales picked up.
Now, I hate to admit it, but I've never sold a single product on Clickbank...and it hasn't been for not trying. In fact, I want to sell like crazy on Clickbank just so I can say I have done it, but still...I'm trying all sorts of different ways to do it and I still can't make it happen.
On the other hand, I can sell E-Junkie products like hotcakes (mostly a different class of product) and I can get adsense and other affiliate revenue working pretty well.
So you might be wondering why I am telling you all of this. Well the truth is that I think I might be realizing that even though I want to learn how to master other IM methods, there are certain ones that I am naturally good at. The rest of them just seem to fail each and every time. Maybe I need a mentor to help me or maybe I'm just not cut out for CB, I don't know. However, I do know that if I spent less time trying to master systems I can't figure out, and more time creating products for the niches I can dominate, then I would have cut my learning curve in half and doubled my profits.
So in effect, I am asking a question and giving an answer at the same time.
The question is, do you think people are meant to only make money using methods that are natural to them (for me, nich blogging).
The answer is: when you find something that you are good at, don't learn anything else unless it can improve your current system. Continue to tweak your system until it runs on auto-pilot and is as simple as it can get. Only then, maybe when you are bored, should you start to dabble in other systems.
I made the mistake of trying to master too many systems at once and although I learned how not to do them, I also realized that dominating my niches is the surest path to success. So in the end, find something that you are good at and tweak it until you own it. We all have different specialties and there is no "surefire easy way" to get rich in this business, so quit looking for the easy fix.