The Intenet Marketing Failure Story

In my experience you go through hundreds of horrible, frustrating failures til you finally some success.

Yes the vast majority of people who fail at Internet Marketing just don't stick with it long enough. Yes you definately have to have some knowledge in different techniques. But those are not hard to master. What is difficult is sticking with it and maintaining focus. I know that I went through a period where I started to get pretty good response from Article Marketing. But then I got tempted by a bunch of "shiny things" and tried every new thing under the sun. I lost a lot of momentum and almost threw in the towel. But then I went back to a primary focus and stayed there. I must say that I'm not exactly making a killing yet but I do see the potential. So your remarks are very relevant and appreciated.

Jay

Oh and another point. I was watching the show Shark Tank last night. One of the Sharks is Mark Cuban who is a billionaire and the owner of the Dallas Mavericks. He said don't be afraid to fail. He failed many times but got back up and tried something else. And look what happened?

Excellent point!

Keep moving forward but keep your eyes wide open all the time for anything that will help you along the way.

I would somewhat agree with you tha a lot don't know which direction to go, but I think the picture implies that there are many who do get close to success and then quit or stop and head off in another direction. They were actully going in the right direction, maybe they did know it, for sure, they were not convinced, and quit.

This ^^^ exactly.

I don't always agree with our anonymous friend, but I've never agreed with him more than I do today.

I accept that all the other comments above do indeed apply a small minority, but I'm convinced that most people who fail do so not because they don't take enough action, or give up too early, but because they take endless misguided action: at exactly what stage they give up often makes absolutely no difference to their outcomes, because they've set off in the wrong direction.

Lack of direction might be the reason why many people are failing, but I don't think it is the reason for the end of the road, nail in the coffin type failure of quitting.

I think that is down to the individual.

I think many people might well head off in the right direction but quit just before it starts to happen for them because they thought it was going to be easier and quicker (which is how I interpretted that image).

But someone heading off in completely the wrong direction but with an excellent attitude who takes massive action, is up for the fight, will just hang on in there and never quit no matter what, would (presuming they were reasonably intelligent and keep on researching and learning) eventually figure it out and get onto the right track and make things happen.

I saw this picture on another thread somewhere on the forum but forget where... At the time it made me think of the true story where a man went out west during the gold rush, bought a plot of land and started digging.

After a while, the man struck gold. He went back to his east coast home and told his family about his luck. They promptly moved to the gold site and bought expensive equipment to begin mining. After a short time, they dug up all the gold the man had originally found - it wasn't that much. They kept digging and still found nothing.

Eventually they concluded that there was no gold left and that their efforts would never bear fruit, so they decided to quit. They sold their equipment to a local.

This local was smart and decided to ask a professional mining engineer if there was any gold left on the property (which the original owners never did). The engineer replied that there was in fact gold left - a huge amount of it.

He said that the previous owners had stopped digging only three feet from the new vein of gold ore. So, the local dug it up and became fantastically rich.

The original owners got nothing.

The point is, you never know how close you are to success - you might only be three feet away. Don't quit and you will eventually strike gold. If you do quit, you might never know how close you came to success.

This picture is very far from describing how success usually happens in reality.

Only a stupid person can be digging for several years without finding any evidence along the way that he's doing the right thing, like the guy in the upper tunnel - he didn't already find one single small diamond that could serve as an evidence that there is more to be found if he digs farther. He's just blindly digging like an idiot, hoping that one day he will find the BIG treasure. It does not work that way in the real life, except in very, very rare cases.

In the real life, people succeed because they first make one dollar, then 10 dollars, then 100 dollars, then 1000 dollars...and so on, by doing something right. Then they scale it up and make real business out of it.

You should be making some money out of your efforts within reasonable time frame. If you are not making a dime after you have done it all as the book says, burn that book, DO give up, and do something else.


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