I'm Ready to Give Up

When all else fails, get a regular job. Seems like you have information overload.

Experience is priceless. Keep going and you will eventually make it.

Give up and you join the rest of the mindless sheep chewing their way through life...

baaaaaaa

You need a mentor, loyal partners and grow your reputation. Seems like you are one man show.

You're doing just great man, don't let this get you down. Do a side job to get more income for those things you need.
Dylan

I think this is what you are looking for...

Every single time (without fail) someone creates a thread like this it says something like:

Every. Single. Time.

You answered your own question. Lack of focus is your issue.

You said you have been going for only a few months and within that time you think you have seriously given all of those different business models a real proper go and the dedication they not only deserve, but need?

Some people here have spent years before they succeeded -- me included.

If you had been working at the one business model non-stop for 2 months and focusing on it like a hawk, then that's one thing. But from the sounds of it you have been spreading yourself too wide. As the old saying goes, " Jack of all trades, master of none."

Look around you. Find a business model that has been proven to work over and over again. The first one that comes to my mind is list building. Do it and focus on it until you make it work. That doesn't mean buying the next WSO that looks cool. It means focus on the one thing only and do not buy any other tools or courses or anything else.

If you do that you'll succeed faster than anything else.

Just focus on "ONE" business model.

Sell the site to make a few quick bucks.

Perseverance!!! Giving up is not an option...When you feel like giving up it often times means success is right around the corner. Looking forward to hearing about your future success

-Chip

Hi Determined Warrior, I am kind of in the same boat as you and the one thing my mentor has been preaching is ' the money is in the list.'
Focus on that and let the rest be your additional and I am sure they will all fall into place one day.
I don't know if you like the singer 'Pink', she released a song called "Try". The lyrics are fantastic and it has motivated me to keep trying. Cheers to you.
Jul.T.

Have you tried offering some kind of service, like writing, graphics, SEO or web design?

A lot of people knock the idea of a service, saying "you're selling your time."

Well, guess what- you also sell your time when you're spending it all just reading.

...except then, you're selling your time for NO income.

Find one method that has been proven to work for someone else, and then stick to it. Don't deviate from that method until you're making money.

Like a few others have said, you need a coach or a mentor but you need to make sure you find a good one that you will mesh well with and one that is successful and can help you start making some money. One of the first things a coach/mentor will probably tell you, is something a few other people here have mentioned - focus on ONE thing. It's hard to figure out what will work for you if you're getting distracted by one 'shiny object' after another. Sometimes you need to focus on just one thing and work at making that successful before moving onto the next.

Looks like you built up loads of sites hoping to make some profit rather than not providing some value to potential buyer!

The only tips I can give is to learn and master buyer mentality before stepping into IM business.

You just said "I can't give up losing money because I need the money for school."

This statement is broken. You have bigger problems than losing money in IM, you can't even make the most basic decisions using proper logic and reason. You are not ready to run your own business. Get a job.

Keep grinding bro. I've been doing IM for years. Invested thousands of dollars. I was about to give up. And then I got a full time job as an SEO - Link builder for a clothing company. Looks like the WF lead me to something great . And not only do I get paid, but I got a mentor (my boss). The $$ I make from my job, I'm able to invest back into my business. Such a great feeling.

My boss, my goodness. He works 9-5. Afterwards, from 8PM to 2AM he focuses on his business (Internet Marketing of course). 6 days a week. Has a family of his own, has time to party and what not. And he just tells me, it's all about laser focusing and just on that grind.

Well that changed my perspective in some things. Thanks for that . Wish you the best bud.

My advice is to set up a goal first.

Without a goal you'll just waste your time and wont accomplish anything.

Once you set up a goal, figure out how to achieve it.

first thing first... NEVER GIVE UP

Second You need to find a method that has been proven over and over again that it will make you a residual income.

For me in was building squeeze pages and then building an email list. Once I have people on my list I get them to know, like, and trust me then promote products every so often.

So keep looking around and then decide you want to do 1 method and 1 method only. Do not let anything else distract you and learn everything you can about this method.

Keep at it until you start seeing positive results.

For me it was getting my first initial traffic to my squeeze page
Next it was getting my first subscriber
Finally it was getting my first dollar.

Keep at it and if you need any help ask around here, many people are more then welcome to lend you a helping hand

An elephant takes two years to give birth. The bigger the animal, the longer the gestation.

You've got something bigger than an elephant cooking....

Hey, maybe this isn't for you or Maybe this speaks to a larger issue that you can't focus and stick to things.

best of luck

You need a mentor seriously.Get coaching from someone what you exactly want to do.

Well maybe internet marketing is not the right business for you. Some people are just not cut out for it. You can make plenty of money offline as well.

But if you are serious about making money online you need to focus and put more effort into your business. You will be surprised as to just how much money you can make online if you think things through.

Formulate a new strategy, obviously the one you have now is not working. Brainstorm ideas with fellow marketers, get a partner, a mentor, or even someone to remind you to work. Don't continue until you have a perfect marketing strategy. Work on your PLAN. Too many people rush into building a website but they forget to plan each step accordingly and everything falls apart.

PLAN. EFFORT. CONSISTENCY.

I would a advice you take a break, clear your head and make a choice of the method most interesting to you. Once you have this done you can the write down your strategy of how you plan to implement it and start working on this strategy. Avoid being distracted. Your strategy is your business, everything else is noise.

Information overload! I see myself in past here

Hi Please never ever give up!
Me too I got some set backs but I continue with daily action plan. Don't get overwhelmed. One of the big threats in the IM business is a deluge of information. You can join free or very cheap programs like $ 7 a month.
Focus and be consistent. Whatever program you do. Do not give up bc success is determined by trial and error. All marketing gurus with success stories faced a situation like you.

Sorry to hear that it's gone badly for you. I'm finding it difficult to respond because I desperately don't want to come across as saying "I told you so". What actually matters here is for you to understand why it hasn't made any sales, because you can learn something good, and helpful, there.

Step back, look at the bigger picture and think about all the people making their full-time livings as Amazon affiliates. What you're suggesting can't really be quite right, can it? You surely don't imagine that they're all confabulating it? I'm not one of them, by any means, but I do enough with Amazon in my very small-scale way not to imagine that for a moment.

Do you think it might to some extent be your "SEO approach", rather than having a traffic-generating plan that doesn't depend on search engines, that's resulted in its not working at all?

I instinctively wince a bit when I see someone saying what you've just said there, to be honest. I note your inverted commas around the word "experts" but I also despair of your chances, if you're starting off everything from the premise that "easy-ish keywords" are really likely to make a difference to your chances of earning a living. Personally, I'd advise you - whatever you try next - not to put too much of your time and effort into trying to attract "organic SERP's" traffic, for two main reasons: first, it's very precarious and makes your business Google-dependent, and any business that's Google-dependent is no more than one algorithm-change away from a potential accident (or even a potential disaster), as so many Warriors have been finding out over the last year or two, some of them to their very great cost; secondly, for me, search engine traffic has been uniformly the worst-converting traffic out of everything I've ever tried in 8 entirely different niches over the whole of the last 4 years - search engine visitors to all my websites typically stay the least time, view the fewest pages, opt in the least often and actually buy anything by far the least often. I admit I do get tons of search engine traffic to all my main sites (because high rankings for multiple keywords happen to be a minor side-benefit of the main targeted traffic-generation method I use to build my business) but I'd certainly hate to have to make a living just from that traffic.

Yes; this is often a huge problem. The thing that made such a big difference to me, when I started doing this, was developing enough judgment to be able to appreciate who were the minority of people worth listening to, choosing to be guided by them, and ignoring the majority. It's difficult, though: at the start, when you're most in need of that interpretative skill, you're least likely to have it.

I hear you. I sympathize. I urge you to focus on one thing that isn't an SEO-dependent business model, because I think that will shift the odds significantly in your favor, exactly as it has done for others.

Hey,

During one of my first interview for coaching program (I started offline) I was told to give a word for myself. Those words were:"Never Give Up". I follow it since that time. Sure I am just normal man and I have my up and down. But those words keep me accountable for myself.

You've mentioned that you bought a lot thus you waste a lot of money. Make your research, find a good coach, find his students to get their opinions and stick to his coaching program until you get positive results. It would be much cheaper for you.

How many videos have you made ?

I will never give up this is my dream. I want to work online, and travel the world. Two weeks ago google slapped my site. I lost 90% of my traffic. I will no longer rely on google for my traffic. Right away I started pounding away on my twitter account driving my traffic back up to normal levels without google. If it's traffic you need you can get it from other sources. When I tweet out a link now I get 20 re tweets or more. Build a brand and slowly over time you wont need google, and you can start to make money. Very few people make money online the first couple of years. Don't give up, and work hard follow your dreams.

When I first started I worked 2 part-time jobs just to fund my internet business...Make sure you have some consistent money coming in and then work on expanding your internet by investing any extra money into it....Eventually something will hit....Stick with one strategy until you make a buck...

So many people have all pretty much said the same thing. In order to master something, you need to focus on it. There's a quote that goes something like it's better to be great at one thing than to be good at many things. I never could really understand how great of a quote that was until I went into internet marketing.
I agree with many others here though if you don't have a job or are having a hard time finding one due to the economy, try offering a service for quick or semi quick money. That is what I have chosen to focus on as well as internet marketing so that I can always make sure to have something to hold me another month if I don't make any money from internet marketing. It takes months, even years to get a business off the ground. Remember that.

You obv. need to start from scratch again and focus on one method.
Do it simple,don`t overdo things.

Build a squeezepage,and focus on that only.
Again,do it really simple. Drive traffic with youtube videos, (with low competition keywords,which is really simple to rank) forums and social media. If you have the funds,do some soloads. Later on,when your list is growing you can do adswaps.

Thor

You ARE NOT ALLOWED to quit! Quitting is failure - and failure is never an option!

The reason to why you have found no success is simple; You have listed umpteen different methods that you have "tried". If you had instead picked one, ANY one of them, and put all your focus, time and effort in to that one method, you would be in a totally different position now.

You need to stop buying products. You already know enough to get started. Take a rest for a day, clear your head. Pick up a pen and a piece of paper and write down a plan and stick to it until you succeed. It's as simple as that, so many people over complicate things that aren't complicated..

You only have two choices. 1) Quit and work a job until your 65 or older. 2) NEVER GIVE UP until you succeed. It has taken some IMers years of effort with a never quit mentality. Which choice will you take is up to you...

yeah the reason you're not making any money, or creating any buzz of traffic, seems easy to me, ..it's because you use words like "try"/ I try to do this...and nothing works , blah blah.

You have to pick one area, focus on that til u make some money, and then scale up. Don't just try, or dabble, in this one, and then this next shiny object, oh then this one, so you never really gain any traction because you bail too early.

Try reading think and grow rich, there's a good story in there about the guy who gave up too early, right before striking it rich in his gold mine.

It seems you had followed almost many ways and lost your focus on single project.
From my experience, I would say, Amazon Affiliate works very well. But it may take time and more effort.

Prepare a good plan and be focus. To get success with Amazon affiliate programs I would suggest the followings :
1. Choose product area that you are familiar with.
2. Do keyword research - Need help here it is - SEO Guide for Beginner: How To Do Keyword Research Free with Google Keyword Tool

3. Find out the keywords

4. Buy new domain (Don't try with your old ones - If you need cash to buy new domain - take some time, offer some online services - If you are good at writing, offer article writing services (iWriter.com) - If you are good with other skills - hunt for projects on Odesk, Elance, Freelancer.com and earn some cash to fund yourself)

5. Write good content, structure your site well.

6. Start Social Media promotions - As first step, create official pages for your site and then go ahead from there, be active.

7. Write good articles on your niche - Create blogs on FREE blog platforms and post unique posts and promote those blogs - Because these kind of blogs are easier to get TOP rankings on Google and get nice traffic. Don't forget to add a link back to your site that you can enjoy referral traffic. - Target long tail keywords for those blogs

8. Find out forums and other blogs about your niche, be an active member/commenter there - these will give you good referral traffic

9. Now, you should be able to get decent amount of traffic and some sales

10. Still you want to go more? Start to work on SEO for your site by getting more quality links.....

You are DONE.

But, this really needs lots of patience...patience...patience...

Try this...

1. Change your mindset from "How can I make money?" to "How can I HELP people?".

2. Create a blog where you write about everything that you worked on today. This helped me a lot. You don't need to make it public, it can just be a private blog that you use to log you progress. Eventually you will create the habit of working and then writing about what you did.

Good luck!

Don't Give up, Keep Pluging your products or campaign etc..., it will come.
its the internet marketing game we play! eventually you will get the bonus you have been waiting for, trust me!

The money I've made the past few years is with niche sites and SEO, but I'm finally realizing that the real money (and quick money!) is in product creation and list building. ANYBODY can create a product, seriously. If you can type, and you can research stuff, you can write an ebook. It can put massive leverage on all your IM efforts.....but you'll never know until you do it!!!

Jon

It's hard when you first start out. You get conflicting advice from everyone. When you're first learning it can get overwhelming. I'd take a minute and figure out what I really want to do. What area I really enjoy and would enjoy working on. Once you do that figure out how to monetize it. Maybe you'll start a blog or site and sell clickbank products related to it. Maybe you'll offer a service that you like. Just think of what you'd enjoy spending your time doing.

If you want to solve your problems, you have to follow certain steps. In the beginning you have to spend money and work hard without making sales.

When you will manage to get traffic and convert your visitors into buyers, you will start selling a few products. But this is not enough.

You have to keep promoting your business if you want to have many customers and sell many products everyday. You have to sell good products if you want to have repeat customers who will send you more customers because they are satisfied.

This is a long process. Building a business takes time, a lot of work, persistence, and patience.

I am switching to write Kindle ebooks to see if that better. With over 100 millions units that reads Kindle ebooks I hope that I at least make some cash there.

I just made 25 bucks from a single refer to a dating website from a dating blog I run. Neh, too little. But, I will look into it and see if I can optimize that blog.

I think your niche site needs more visitors, mabye your site is all right, you just need more visitors. Buy a site with more visitors and then add content to that?

Hi OP

I've made alot of money with Amazon associates program and I can tell you that Clone type sites never really worked for me :O But i think if you have a FB fanpage to drive traffic to your site it may work.

BTW i have some 5- 10 Page niche amazon sites which I hardly monitor ever that made more money than a 3000 page Auto content Amazon site even after 3 years plus now.

In all honesty though, if i were to start all over again.. I would start with CPA marketing, its really fast to make money with CPA marketing ( there is a warriorforum section on this topic) and dont be afraid of PAID traffic, start small and scale.
Ad Networks - CPA, CPM, CPL - Millionaire Makers..

After almost 4 years online, the one biggest thing I learnt is PAID traffic is the fastest way to make money. SEO is too slow and too many uncertainties

All the best to you

Giving up in business is not an option but failure is a stepping stone and an indication that you are headed to success.
Success is a process and failure is part of it.Invest more time,effort and money and you will achieve your ultimate goal in the long run.

focus... pick a subject and focus on that.. do not spread on all the topics and options that IM has to offer... then you lose the game.

Looks like you were like me bro. The problem here seems to be information overload...
If you have bought lots of products, choose one and stick to it. Don't go searching for more products.

Take it from me who has a whole load of WSOs in my hard drive. Most of them unread...

Obviously, you need someone to help you, some partnership or a team. You need to analyse things, to see what worked and what didn't, and yeah, perhaps look a bit more into the buyer's psychology.

I believe you need a coach..

Someone who will give you good advise and keep you motivated.

Find someone who is already where you want to be and contact him for coaching.

Cheers,

Gary

Just find something that actually works and stick with it. It took me two to three years before I made money online. I wasted a lot of money on junk that didn't bring me any results. I didn't give up and eventually found something that worked.

But I'd suggest that you find another source of income until you do find something.

Thread Title: "Ready to give up"
Thread Content: "Self Pitty Party"
OP Signature: "Come see my cameras from Amazon"

Honestly, this thread is garbage. You drag people in with your pitty party so you can let everyone know your not really giving up but simply having a hard time.

The reason you're having a hard time is because your in the wrong place. Everyone here knows about and more than likely advertises for Amazon already. Take your signature to a forum about PHOTOGRAPHY! Then stop talking about Marketing, and talk about PHOTOGRAPHY!

Never give up mate.

A year and half ago I made a video they took me an hour to do and uploaded it to Youtube. There it sat and I simply forgot about it.

Seven months later (after doing nothing with it at all)I started earning Clickbank commissions and when I looked into it I found they were from this video. It somehow managed to find it's way onto Google page 1 and has stuck there. Over $3,500 in 10 months. I haven't written this to brag. I have written this to show that there is always a way. I felt like you feel now but carried on and I'm glad I did. Never give up.

Yes. You have information overload. You can't try everything all at once. How long are you giving it to see results before trying another system? You need at least 3 months of effort to know if it will work or not. Notice I said effort! 3 months of surfing around is not going to build a business.

My recommendation is: try one proven system and stick at it. If you need cash then start writing for other people on fiverr or better still get a job that will fund your online business until you are making enough.

BUT please don't give up. If you stick at it you can really make this work. Think about the money you have spent on products - would that have been better invested with a coach - who could direct you and make sure you did the work you needed to? Think about it. But dont give up! :-) All the best. K

To the OP, I've been there, done that, even recently. I kind of walked away for a bit myself. What I'm realizing is that it isn't simply a lack of focus, that lack of focus exists because I was just chasing money, and that simply isn't enough. Learn strategies from wso's or threads here, but find an application that you really care about and you'll find more staying power. I'm in the process now of filling out a model that will suit me and give me something I care about in order to stick with it and avoid distractions.

Hey don't give up dude...the future is bright.
i just want to say . if you are a affiliate with the clickbank. you will have a really hard time to make a sales , because that's what i'm been through, i mean it works..but the thing is you have to put a lot of work in it. which mean it takes long period to see the result,

"If you spend too much time thinking about a thing, you'll never get it done."
- Bruce Lee


Good Luck!