The way I perceive things differently.

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I've been getting into the IM scene for about a month now, and there's has been one huge change in me since I started with everything. The way I perceive a website is completely different.

No longer do I enter a website and begin to look at the content. Instead the first thing I now do is notice how that website is making money. Almost every site is doing it and I can't believe I never noticed it before, it's all right in front of me!

I don't even look for these things intentionally. I can be genuinely looking for something useful and will subconsciously notice how the website is making money before getting a chance to browse the site.

It sounds like a bad thing, not looking at a website for what it is, but on the plus side I can still tell every time the difference between a site run by those who are just trying to make money and those that are genuinely trying to be helpful.

The websites that I've known are just trying to make money I clicked off fairly quickly. I didn't do this because I resented the fact they wanted make money from me, I did it because the content on the site just didn't do the job.

It's shown me that building a site solely for the purpose of making money is not enough, it needs the quality content to back it up. I'd like to think that the majority of people out there are completely oblivious to such attempts to make money, just as I was over a month ago, however blatant these attempts may seem. They will click those links, sign up for those newsletters but only because they believe that there's something to benefit them.

Even when I look back I can think of times when I've probably made someone some money without realising. Again I don't resent the fact that I've done this because it was always as a result of actually wanting what was being offered.

Now that I look at things differently, I am able to use my own past experience of what was valuable to me, what genuinely looks like an attempt to be helpful and not just to make money as a guideline for what I should be offering others.
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  • Profile picture of the author asiancasanova
    Its like seeing the matrix!
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    • Profile picture of the author Curtis2011
      This is pretty much how I operate now.

      I have been studying internet marketing for 4-5 years or so, and every website I go to I usually notice how functional their website design is, how optimized it is to make profits, how they make their profit, what their business model is, etc.

      I also notice tons of things like "oh man, if they would just move this ad over here, they could double their profits" and similar things.

      I've also pretty much become an expert at reading through bull**** sales letters. I've studied enough sales tactics (ie "how to bull**** people" tactics) to know when a sales letter is 90% hype, and be able to discern the 10% of the words that actually tell you what the hell the product is to begin with.

      It's just something you live with. I'm sure experts in other areas of life notice other things. My dad is a very "hands on" type of guy who fixes everything around the house, and he's always the first one to point out how peoples' appliances or machinery works and how to fix it.
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  • Profile picture of the author Nick Pearson
    Originally Posted by coljwood View Post

    I've been getting into the IM scene for about a month now, and there's has been one huge change in me since I started with everything. The way I perceive a website is completely different.

    No longer do I enter a website and begin to look at the content. Instead the first thing I now do is notice how that website is making money. Almost every site is doing it and I can't believe I never noticed it before, it's all right in front of me!

    I don't even look for these things intentionally. I can be genuinely looking for something useful and will subconsciously notice how the website is making money before getting a chance to browse the site.

    It sounds like a bad thing, not looking at a website for what it is, but on the plus side I can still tell every time the difference between a site run by those who are just trying to make money and those that are genuinely trying to be helpful.

    The websites that I've known are just trying to make money I clicked off fairly quickly. I didn't do this because I resented the fact they wanted make money from me, I did it because the content on the site just didn't do the job.

    It's shown me that building a site solely for the purpose of making money is not enough, it needs the quality content to back it up. I'd like to think that the majority of people out there are completely oblivious to such attempts to make money, just as I was over a month ago, however blatant these attempts may seem. They will click those links, sign up for those newsletters but only because they believe that there's something to benefit them.

    Even when I look back I can think of times when I've probably made someone some money without realising. Again I don't resent the fact that I've done this because it was always as a result of actually wanting what was being offered.

    Now that I look at things differently, I am able to use my own past experience of what was valuable to me, what genuinely looks like an attempt to be helpful and not just to make money as a guideline for what I should be offering others.
    I don't think I completely agree with you here. Just because a website is trying to make money doesn't mean that it isn't offing quality information. You said your looking at how a website is trying to make money and you base that on whether or not the site content would be helpful or not, but wouldn't it be easier to just look at the content first. If you find the content helpful then stay, if you don't then leave. It seems a little bit unfair to judge a site on how its trying to make money then what there really offering within there content.

    There are many websites trying to make money online and if your entering in the IM niche you will be one of them. Trust me when I say you won't want people to judge you by how you monetize your website.
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    • Profile picture of the author dannn1
      Good point about the Matrix... Once you realize how everything fits together and you know what is going on behind the scenes, the way you look at things change fundamentally.

      It really goes to show how education, in any area including IM, can benefit you. In the past you might have clicked through one of the ads thinking they can be trusted.

      With training in IM, you know what to look for, and you unconsciously look for signs even if you aren't in the middle of doing a business activity online.

      Knowing the IM business also opens your eyes to advertising in the real world - you recognize the markets, niches, and demographics ads are directed to.

      You also become immune to being sold through traditional advertising to a certain extent...

      Good for us, bad for the ad companies
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    • Profile picture of the author coljwood
      Originally Posted by eMarketing Mistakes View Post

      I don't think I completely agree with you here. Just because a website is trying to make money doesn't mean that it isn't offing quality information. You said your looking at how a website is trying to make money and you base that on whether or not the site content would be helpful or not, but wouldn't it be easier to just look at the content first. If you find the content helpful then stay, if you don't then leave. It seems a little bit unfair to judge a site on how its trying to make money then what there really offering within there content.

      There are many websites trying to make money online and if your entering in the IM niche you will be one of them. Trust me when I say you won't want people to judge you by how you monetize your website.
      I'm not quite saying I'd click off because they are blatantly trying to make money. I may notice their attempts to make money first of all, but I will always check out the content. After all, that is the reason I have clicked through to the site in the first place.

      What I am saying is that from what I've noticed the ones that are so obviously trying to make money are generally the least useful. I know that the better websites are trying to make money just the same, but they always give the impression that they genuinely trying to be helpful.
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  • Profile picture of the author Muhsin Aziz
    That's cool that you are starting to see things differently now.
    I was in that phase before & it was pretty interesting & I learned
    a lot of new things.
    But I hope that you don't get too engrossed over observing websites
    all day long. Once you have picked a business model for your online
    business, get started asap.
    Coz the real lessons are when you start to do things (taking action)
    & making mistakes along the way.
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