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Enough With The Freakin Competition Already!!

by Josef_Benjamin
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Are you NOT doing something because someone told you on this forum or another one that it's "saturated", "too crowded", or "it'll never work"?

Do you have any idea how many dreams you smash when you tell people they can't do something because somebody else is having success in a particular field?

Where did this idea of competition come from anyways when there is an infinite abundance of everything we need here on earth?

Now, I'm not saying we should naively copy somebody else's idea exactly, but I am saying that there are more than enough idea "variations" everybody can come up with to be a success in whatever "niche" or market they want.

There is NOT a shortage of ideas and creativity.

There is TON'S of money to be created with a little thought and inspiration (from other peopels original ideas and spiritual connection).

Whatever you do, don't NOT do something because somebody else told you that it can't be done.

Start thinking along the lines of CO-Opetition and creating and making money along side your fellow man.

It's not YOU against THEM.

NOBODY...and I mean NOBODY... is taking from you what YOU believe
you deserve to have.

This idea that there is a "finite" source of money or pie in the online business world, and your job is to take "as big a pie than anybody else" leaving crumbs is simply a LACK MENTALITY.

To all you newbies out there, it's important you break out of this limited thought...otherwise, there will always be somebody looking to take the dollars out of your pocket when your playing on the same playing field.

Elevate yourself. Elevete your game. And break youself away from the "Lack Mentality", and take the side of "Abundance" and "More than enough money to go around...for all"

This is THE BIGGEST KEY TO MY SUCCESS...

When I stopped giving a damn about what everybody else is doing and how much money their making compared to me and started focusing on myself and my desires, what I wanted to accomplish....Suddenly, when I released the "lack mentality" from my mind, money and ideas seemed to flow out of no where.

I take action...and the money I had in my head is created apparently out of little effort.

This is the first step people to creating success.

Stop thinking "Me against Him"!
#competition #freakin
  • Profile picture of the author braver55b
    Great post.


    Years ago, guru after guru were saying that if you are new in IM that you shouldn't get involved at all in the IM niche because its just too competitive.

    That only tells me that there is money to made in that niche and they want to keep it to themselves.
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    • Profile picture of the author cimbah
      Josef, you sound like an Aber.
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      • Profile picture of the author michellegreen
        A little while back, someone posted on the WF and had some tips on how to generate income selling Clickbank products.

        I decided to give it a try and went into one of the biggest niches around (weight loss) as an experiment to see how I would go.

        From day 3 or 4 I was listed in Google, and from day 11 I started making sales.

        So if the product is selling, then chances are you can sell it!
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  • Profile picture of the author Jon Alexander
    it's a good point. It's a big old internet, and there's a LOT of room...
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    • Profile picture of the author Martin Luxton
      If I was making a fortune from a niche what better way to keep out competition than to tell everybody there's no money in it.

      You have to remember that there is also DISinformation on the WF.

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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Bard
    Competition makes one stronger. You don't grow and learn living as the big fish in a small pond.

    Jump in the big niche and learn how to survive.

    Starting with an attitude that something is "too competitive" or "too hard" is basically telling yourself that you don't have enough confidence in which case, maybe you should not try and be in business for yourself.

    The other alternative, that it's "too hard" might be that you know deep down you are too lazy to work for what you want.

    If you are ever going to get out of where you are now and get to where you want to be sooner or later you have to take the training wheels off.

    Why wait?
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    • Profile picture of the author ExRat
      Hi,

      Also, if you master the art of differentiation and bring brand new, unique USPs to the table whatever you do - you can walk into almost any market and view the landscape as having NO competition.

      Success very often breeds complacency, whereas 'new kids on the block' often innovate. As long as you keep doing it and don't fall into the complacency trap, you can be a perpetual market leader and scoff at the competition recycling and feeding off your scraps.
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  • Profile picture of the author Adrian Cooper
    Originally Posted by Josef_Benjamin View Post

    Are you NOT doing something because someone told you on this forum or another one that it's "saturated", "too crowded", or "it'll never work"?

    Do you have any idea how many dreams you smash when you tell people they can't do something because somebody else is having success in a particular field?

    Where did this idea of competition come from anyways when there is an infinite abundance of everything we need here on earth?

    Now, I'm not saying we should naively copy somebody else's idea exactly, but I am saying that there are more than enough idea "variations" everybody can come up with to be a success in whatever "niche" or market they want.

    There is NOT a shortage of ideas and creativity.

    There is TON'S of money to be created with a little thought and inspiration (from other peopels original ideas and spiritual connection).

    Whatever you do, don't NOT do something because somebody else told you that it can't be done.

    Start thinking along the lines of CO-Opetition and creating and making money along side your fellow man.

    It's not YOU against THEM.

    NOBODY...and I mean NOBODY... is taking from you what YOU believe
    you deserve to have.

    This idea that there is a "finite" source of money or pie in the online business world, and your job is to take "as big a pie than anybody else" leaving crumbs is simply a LACK MENTALITY.

    To all you newbies out there, it's important you break out of this limited thought...otherwise, there will always be somebody looking to take the dollars out of your pocket when your playing on the same playing field.

    Elevate yourself. Elevete your game. And break youself away from the "Lack Mentality", and take the side of "Abundance" and "More than enough money to go around...for all"

    This is THE BIGGEST KEY TO MY SUCCESS...

    When I stopped giving a damn about what everybody else is doing and how much money their making compared to me and started focusing on myself and my desires, what I wanted to accomplish....Suddenly, when I released the "lack mentality" from my mind, money and ideas seemed to flow out of no where.

    I take action...and the money I had in my head is created apparently out of little effort.

    This is the first step people to creating success.

    Stop thinking "Me against Him"!
    I have thanked Josef for this most profound and wise post.

    I hope that everyone will read, absorb and above all not rebel if you find these words out of your comfort zone.

    Everyone is programmed from birth to conform to a rigid set of rules defined by society and impressed upon children by parents from birth.

    Such programming includes, but not limited to religion, education, work, social status, health and much more.

    By the age of 7 years the Mind of a child is almost fully programmed with the basics,and most people are running on that program for the rest of their lives.

    Take religion for example. How many people pro-actively research all available belief systems before choosing one? A very tiny minority. Religion, which is a big part of the lives of many people, almost always the religion of parents, grandparents, great grandparents and so on for generations, blindly accepted as fact, and the one true religion without ever having looked at the truth.

    Children are taught, from an early age, that "life is hard". "You must do well in school, must get good grades, must go to university and get a good degree, and then you are ready for the rat race which you fight for the next 50 years before retiring, growing old and die".

    Sound familiar?

    The truth is very different. There is nothing that you cannot be, do or have.

    But first you must break that programming as well as resist the sometimes over zealous efforts of others to reinforce your programming and correct your "madness".

    I broke my programming at age 8 years,and have followed my own path ever since.

    My three teenage sons are all extremely high performers at school, but have shunned the pressures of peers, teachers and in particular relations to go straight in to IM with their own businesses. I am very proud of them.

    Following Josef's message - start thinking for yourself.

    Stop buying loads of "products" for the comfort factor, stop believing the world owes you a living, stop putting pressure on yourself, and start using your Mind.

    Above all believe in yourself.

    If you believe you can only "make" $1K per month, you will. If you believe you can make $100K per month, you will.

    When I started my first company with $500, while most would have started a corner store, I was only focused on creating the very first, fully national software company. Now believe me, if I had told someone that I was going to create a fully national bricks and mortar computer business on $500, I would have been committed to the local loony bin, so instead I just did it - because I knew I would succeed. I did succeed and within 5 years was doing $18M and employing 77 people.

    These days if I decide to make some extra cash - even though I do not need it - I just do it. Last Sunday I made 4 figures in 3 hours while I was out with my sons enjoying the awesome weather we are enjoying.

    As Josef said - break the programming, break all thoughts of restriction and lack, and only know infinite abundance - and it will be yours.
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    • Profile picture of the author Josef_Benjamin
      Originally Posted by braver55b View Post

      Great post.


      Years ago, guru after guru were saying that if you are new in IM that you shouldn't get involved at all in the IM niche because its just too competitive.

      That only tells me that there is money to made in that niche and they want to keep it to themselves.

      I still remember those days like yesterday.

      I got involved in several niches I personally wasn't very intrested in. And I spent my wheels for months looking for MY niche. When I was doing it all along, until I actually followed the direct instructions of a guru saying "it's too competitive".

      It seemed natural, at the time to follow these rules because I was so used to following rules (school, parents)

      I don't blame either one. I don't blame myself. I only grow and expand myself beyond what I even believe is possible.

      It's why I'm as successful as I am today...and constantly breaking down barries.

      I' created this post, because I so want others to do the same.

      Originally Posted by michellegreen View Post

      A little while back, someone posted on the WF and had some tips on how to generate income selling Clickbank products.

      I decided to give it a try and went into one of the biggest niches around (weight loss) as an experiment to see how I would go.

      From day 3 or 4 I was listed in Google, and from day 11 I started making sales.

      So if the product is selling, then chances are you can sell it!
      Great point.

      I sell alot of high ticket items on ebay, and DESPITE the fact that there might be a DOZEN listings for one item. I put the EXACT same item up, with my own creativity, personality and flare, and I ALWAYS get sales.

      Better yet, I see OTHER ebayers make alot of sales too.

      Why?

      It's all an illusion. Your mind can play tricks on you and STOP you from even so much as listing an item on ebay if you see 1 to many people listing the same.

      Michelle, you are a great example of what it means to follow a plan, and execute it despite other peoples opinions.

      Opinions are like a**holes. Everybody has one



      Originally Posted by ExRat View Post

      Hi,

      Also, if you master the art of differentiation and bring brand new, unique USPs to the table whatever you do - you can walk into almost any market and view the landscape as having NO competition.

      Success very often breeds complacency, whereas 'new kids on the block' often innovate. As long as you keep doing it and don't fall into the complacency trap, you can be a perpetual market leader and scoff at the competition recycling and feeding off your scraps.
      I greatly appreciate your addition to the post. However...

      I see your missing the "hidden idea" behind this thread.

      That idea being...

      The only competition you or I have, is the competion created in our
      heads.

      You can literly create situations in which it APPEARS to be other people
      fighting for your position or knocking off your product, and it will appear
      as real as the soil you stand on.

      But it's just an illusion. A creation.

      Just goes to show how powerful we are as creators and human
      beings.

      People often create competion because of limiting belief or later in
      the game in their already successful careers to "spice things up" for
      themselves.

      It's not so much about scoffing at others who are looking to achieve
      the same amount of success as you...is that such a bad thing?

      Do you believe that if you showed your so called "competion" the ropes,
      you'll be pushed out of business?

      Why not reach down and give a helping hand and watch how your
      bank account grows and quadruples...

      One of the main reasons I have a ebay business is so I CAN teach
      others how to do what I do successfully with as little errors as
      possible. It's not so I can keep all my ideas and secrets to myself...

      Just something to think about.


      Originally Posted by apc01 View Post

      I have thanked Josef for this most profound and wise post.

      I hope that everyone will read, absorb and above all not rebel if you find these words out of your comfort zone.

      Everyone is programmed from birth to conform to a rigid set of rules defined by society and impressed upon children by parents from birth.

      Such programming includes, but not limited to religion, education, work, social status, health and much more.

      By the age of 7 years the Mind of a child is almost fully programmed with the basics,and most people are running on that program for the rest of their lives.

      Take religion for example. How many people pro-actively research all available belief systems before choosing one? A very tiny minority. Religion, which is a big part of the lives of many people, almost always the religion of parents, grandparents, great grandparents and so on for generations, blindly accepted as fact, and the one true religion without ever having looked at the truth.

      Children are taught, from an early age, that "life is hard". "You must do well in school, must get good grades, must go to university and get a good degree, and then you are ready for the rat race which you fight for the next 50 years before retiring, growing old and die".

      Sound familiar?

      The truth is very different. There is nothing that you cannot be, do or have.

      But first you must break that programming as well as resist the sometimes over zealous efforts of others to reinforce your programming and correct your "madness".

      I broke my programming at age 8 years,and have followed my own path ever since.

      My three teenage sons are all extremely high performers at school, but have shunned the pressures of peers, teachers and in particular relations to go straight in to IM with their own businesses. I am very proud of them.

      Following Josef's message - start thinking for yourself.

      Stop buying loads of "products" for the comfort factor, stop believing the world owes you a living, stop putting pressure on yourself, and start using your Mind.

      Above all believe in yourself.

      If you believe you can only "make" $1K per month, you will. If you believe you can make $100K per month, you will.

      When I started my first company with $500, while most would have started a corner store, I was only focused on creating the very first, fully national software company. Now believe me, if I had told someone that I was going to create a fully national bricks and mortar computer business on $500, I would have been committed to the local loony bin, so instead I just did it - because I knew I would succeed. I did succeed and within 5 years was doing $18M and employing 77 people.

      These days if I decide to make some extra cash - even though I do not need it - I just do it. Last Sunday I made 4 figures in 3 hours while I was out with my sons enjoying the awesome weather we are enjoying.

      As Josef said - break the programming, break all thoughts of restriction and lack, and only know infinite abundance - and it will be yours.
      That is so awesome, and I feel so humbled to have read this post
      prior to me finding out that this guy is a millionaire, at home with his
      kids, enjoying the day.

      Brilliant story you shared with us, and ironically, a very similar direction
      I've taken with my "current" way of doing business.

      I' have far more success when I eliminate the naysayers around me and
      in my head.

      Anythings possible, when your not on this board trolling around all day long .

      Feel free to keep your comments coming guys, I'm sure I've
      stepped on some toes. But the same thing had to happen to me
      before I really "got it"...
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    We've been saying this for years but people still don't behave like they understand.

    For a lot of people they're looking for excuses for why they are failing and saying there's too much competition is an easy excuse for them to pick. Obviously it's BS because a lot of competition usually means there's a good demand - which is exactly what you want if you're selling something.

    No-one should base their business decisions on what other people tell them to do, unless that person is a paid consultant who is in a position to be offering such advice.

    For forums - most of the things people say about what works are the opposite of what I have personally found to be true.

    Andy
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    nothing to see here.

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    • Profile picture of the author bizideas
      This is how I respond when someone approaches me with a similar question/ dilemma.

      Go home or to the library and open up your
      local telco Yellow Pages (Yes they're still delivered).
      Flip over to the section that has attorneys listed.
      Is it saturated with too much comp? Absolutely not.
      There's just too much available work, opps, & subniches.
      Would you tell someone aspiring to be an attorney
      not to go for it because there's just too much competition?
      Now do the same for painters, nurses, and accountants.

      Don't the rewards pretty much justify the risk?

      I regards to Mr. Guru. Do you think he knows that?

      Me thinks Mr. Guru just doesn't want the massive encroachment
      taking all his golden nuggets and leveling the playing field       .
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Motley
      Originally Posted by Andyhenry View Post

      We've been saying this for years but people still don't behave like they understand.

      For a lot of people they're looking for excuses for why they are failing and saying there's too much competition is an easy excuse for them to pick. Obviously it's BS because a lot of competition usually means there's a good demand - which is exactly what you want if you're selling something.

      No-one should base their business decisions on what other people tell them to do, unless that person is a paid consultant who is in a position to be offering such advice.

      For forums - most of the things people say about what works are the opposite of what I have personally found to be true.

      Andy
      But if there is a lot of competition, that means that you need to do something to stand out from the crowd. And honestly, when it comes right down to it, all marketers are not created equal. If they were, everyone would have the success of Derek Gehl.

      People need to take serious stock of their strengths and weaknesses, and be honest with themselves. Just because the person that just sold you an ebook says you can do something, doesnt necessarily mean you have the capacity to do so.
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      • Profile picture of the author jasonl70
        Originally Posted by BIG Mike View Post

        From what I've seen over the years, you've got maybe 10% of that saturated market really profiting from it, while the remaining 90% are just spinning their wheels.
        good point. I do a lot in ppc, and I see a LOT of people come and go every week. The real competition is usually much lower then it at first seems.


        Originally Posted by Michael Motley View Post

        But if there is a lot of competition, that means that you need to do something to stand out from the crowd.
        While I can appreciate this, the truth is that there is plenty of room for "me too" products/marketers to still make money. I have been expirementing with plr recently (as in buying plr stuff to sell as my product - not selling plr rights), in a competitive niche, and the results have been eye opening.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dave Allen
    Just remember this one thing...

    ...there's ALWAYS room at the top.
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    • Profile picture of the author ExRat
      Hi Dave,

      ...there's ALWAYS room at the top.
      And if there isn't, employ the elbow.
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