Newbies Are Often Disillusioned - no wonder

You got it.

That's exactly how I feel. Because I'm not in any hurry I can take my time but I do feel quite sorry for those who are all excited about this new opportunity that turns out to be not quite what they expected.

I really don't think there is one easy way to make money online, not for a newbie who has no experience whatsoever. And at first this can be very disappointing. I must say though for any newbie reading this. It can be done if you are willing to put in the graft so just forget about it being easy and roll up your sleeves .

Just wondered what others thought of this.

Ta

But Michael, that is what almost every internet marketer is telling the readers in their sales letters, if they are selling internet marketing products. The pitch varies considerably, but they all seem to tell us that it is easy, takes a couple of hours a day, or a week, or what ever. And people fall for this crap. I bought a package last night from a Warriors Signature for $14.95 that sounded pretty good. Told me that I would not have to create original content and gave me the idea that I could gather that from other web sites. Sounded pretty interesting, and was pretty cheap too, so I plunked down the $14.95 and read it. I was more confused after I read it than I was before.

Yes, I should have known better, but the sales letter was so compelling. And I just wasted $14.95 and about an hour of my time. I am sure he has a great process and makes good money with it. He just didn't explain it to me so I could use it. Am I just dumb as hell? Maybe. Will I ever stop getting convinced to spend my money on hese types of items? Only if I quit reading them as the sales letters are so well done.

I am not trying to say that I was expecting to make a killing overnight. But it would have been nice to have learned something for my money. All I got out of it was more confused.

I have been at it 18 months and it's not a free ride.
I have spent weeks, days and hours, you can't do it overnight inspite of the claims, unless you win a lottery.

See, this is where I disagree. Ok maybe there are some people who want a free ride. But there are also lots and lots of people who are willing to work but are lost because they are being told one thing and then the reality is different. So the newbie doesn't even know where to start cos they think they are doing it wrong when they are not seeing earnings right away. To be honest, I felt this a little when I first started. Even though I wasn't fooled by the make thousands overnight, I still thought I was doing something wrong when I wasn't at least making $10 in a week. So I think this attitude of newbies who want to earn a lot of cash quite quickly (cos that is what they were told in the sales copy) are lazy and greedy. It just isn't fair.

One mans work is another mans pleasure.

You can learn to enjoy anything, even laborious and life consuming things can become fun with the right reframing.

IM and efficiency restructuring is just command and conquer or starcraft in a different format.

Internote007 - You sound just like me, but I think I spend even MORE time than that online. I'm completely fascinated with IM and learning what I can....I started out getting an autoresponder b/c the program I bought told me to....it was months later that I realized I should probably actually have subscribers first!!!

But I try not to make the same mistake twice and now it's time to TAKE ACTION. In fact, I am taking a week off a very flex f/t job to focus on my niche uninterupted and over the course of many days.

I don't blame the IM at all. I had to return to my common sense instead of believing everything I read, and in the end, if they've made off with my $, you don't forget and they've blown any future opp for sales....

My forte is Marketing offline, now I'm ready to transfer it online and look forward to the day that I can give back and help those who started out like myself.

Cheers,
Terri

Thats great Peter,

I think that is what Beth is trying to say. Try to get over the initial disappointment and just work hard at your own pace and eventually it will pay off.

Well done to you for putting in the hard work, persevering and seeing results.

Keep up the good work

Hi BethSuzi,

I also understand your frustration and that of the others who feel the same as you. But there are some things for you to take note of - EG - you are all agreeing and saying the same things.

Someone else mentioned that to them it's about getting the lifestyle - in my opinion, it is. Do you need £25m or £50m? Exactly.

And it's also about mindset. While you are all explaining that marketers are duping you and pulling the wool over your eyes, you are insinuating that this is something new. It's not. It happens offline, online and everywhere else - it's human nature.

Once you grasp that, by taking what you have observed about persuasion online, and applying it back to your old life in terms of - government, media, business, friends, lovers etc you are then starting to develop the right mindset to succeed. You become (gasp) cynical and untrusting towards a large proportion of the world (IE anyone who would like your money). And conveniently, instead of it making you throw your hands up in the air, you learn from it.

I don't mean that you automatically become untrustworthy yourself, I mean that you see the big picture, you see the world as it really is.

And although it can be a little distressing at first, the end result is that it's a lot easier to find the answer to your IM problems which is -

You don't need to buy these products, you don't need anyone else to teach you anything.

You already have the two things that you need to educate yourself in online business -

a) a brain

b) an internet connection

It's extremely difficult to buy your way to success. Yet everyone expects to be able to do so.

Football teams get bought by billionaire owners and then buy most of the top players yet they still don't succeed. Why? Because there are other things that are required. And by buying the top players, it creates more problems - the egotistical overpaid superstars don't bond well as a team. So they don't win.

They need to get the players to bond, and then as a group, use their brains and educate themselves in how that unique group of individuals can work together and succeed. A group of talented individuals is way different to group of talented individuals working together as one.

Yet so many believe that they just spend the money and do nothing else and it will all fall into place.

Same thing for all of you people in this thread who are finding it hard. If it wasn't a painful, challenging process, how much would there be to gain from it? If it was easy, everyone would be successful (which is logistically impossible).

You are individuals - all different. How can anyone sell you a blueprint that requires no initiative from you when you are all different? They CAN'T!

The biggest part of the task ahead is in your hands. Win the battle with yourself and you have the best chance of winning the game. Hardly anyone else can help you with this.

Win the battle with yourself though, and from then onwards almost anyone else in the world can be a useful partner for you on your way to success.

Fail to win the battle with yourself, and you will always be working against yourself.

Most people have received conditioning in the real world that makes it hard for them to see the big picture once they become self employed. Therefore, spend all of your time at the start learning about this conditioning, identifying it in yourself and removing it from your psyche.

It's that conditioning and the mindset that goes with it that makes you return every time and get suckered by salespages.

Remove it, and you won't.

There's your answer. I hope it helps.