NEWBIES: A MUST READ BEFORE GETTING STARTED.

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There are no shortcuts.
There are no substitutes.
Success is a derivative of persistence.

-Mark Batterson

Print out the above quote and put it next to your monitor.

Yes, you can be wildly successful in this business.
Yes, you can make your dreams come true.
Absolutely, 100% attainable.

However, keep in mind that no matter what the countless
flashy sales pages tell you, you can't push a "magic button",
and have $100,000 in your bank account tomorrow..that's
just not how it works.

I think many people start working from home and expect
the income of a highly skilled worker, from completing no/low skill work.

You wouldn't walk into a McDonalds and demand the income
of a surgeon for flipping burgers, would you? Of course not,
because just about anyone can flip a burger, but to become
a surgeon it takes years and years of school, residency, training, etc...

Yes, you can make money your first month, heck, even your
first week in this business. But in order to grow a long term
sustainable business (earning tens of thousands per month),
this is something that, outside of the rare exceptions who make
it big quickly, takes time to build.
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  • Good advice, I fall into that trap, I'm an electrician and I think I don't realize how much work it would take to actually replace my income. I think for now a good goal is just to create a small income rather than replace my existing income.
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    • Passive income is awesome, but as you say, it's NOT just sitting back and watching the money roll in. There is a lot of work that goes into it. For example, bust your butt for 5-years, and then you have a very nice monthly passive income.

      5-years may seem like a lot of time to some...but look at it this way: To create a similar income you'd have to be in a highly skilled field (engineer, lawyer, doctor, etc...). And guess what? They go to school for a LOT LONGER than 5-years, and when they get out, they have a huge amount of debt, and a huge workload ahead of them.

      5-years building your online business doesn't seem so bad now does it? Seems like a great deal to me.
  • You can't? A million WSO headlines say that you can.

    Lol I'm joking by saying that, I completely agree with you, the WSO thread popped into my mind though as I read your post.

    The whole "instant cash" mindset which the WSO thread induces is somewhat damaging in the whole scheme of things, because people begin to assume that "instant cash" is typical. It's not.

    What IS typical is the main idea of your post. Persistence = success. Good post.
  • Best advice you can give. Persistence and hard work pays off. Of course everyone says you just site back and passive income.. of course but they don't tell you about the hard work that was involved to get to that point.
  • Agree 100% on this - about time someone started to contribute some common sense.
  • Nice post. wish i rad something like this when i just started.

    best regards
  • There is a lot of sugarcoating out there. A lot of us have fallen for it at one time or another.
    Thanks for the post.
    Once bitten twice shy!
    Lexilou

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