Maybe too much positivity/success stories?
Hi,
I may seem a bit pesimistic here, but I just saw a thread saying "ignore the negatives" when starting a new business, and I want to put this into context in regards to IM and online businesses.
Obviously, if it is all negative, like his example of "I was reading an article in a property magazine about a young property developer. When he went to buy his first property everyone told him it was a bad idea and he shouldn't do it...now he has a 14 million dollar property portfolio and all those negative people are now asking him to teach them how he did it." This normally happens. But this was mainly all negatives, and this is one success story, but it's not all like that.
Which brings me onto my point. Will all of this positivity and many many stories of how different people are making money online, it really pulls the wool over people's eyes about that fact that is is NOT easy, it is NOT easier than a normal job, and you will NOT be working 1 hour a day and raking in 6 figure incomes like people say, and if people are, it's not within a year or two, it probably took 5-10 years+ realistically, even if years of it were research.
Now of course, a few people might have done this, and like the example above he has a 14 million dollars worth, BUT not everyone - or anywhere near everyone, succeeds like this, or everyone would be a millionaire.
So please, can people make an effort to give a neutral opinion in future, instead of all positive or all negative. I wish people were more honest.
Now fair enough, you can't start a business thinking "I am going to fail", "This isn't going to work", becuase why bother at all. But YOU CAN'T start a business thinking "I WILL make thousands of dollars online", "My business WILL grow into 6-8 figures like other's" and that the quotes given such as the one off 14 million dollar house portfolio will not happen to many people. If you start like that you will give up quickly when you arn't succeeding.
I don't know the full story of the house and 14 million dollars, but in my opinion either he was either clever, had a LOT of time, and/or had money to start it off in the first place, which he obviously did to buy a house. Or he was lucky. It could have been something else of course, not ruling that out.
So, don't start a business, or IM with negative thoughts, and also don't start thinking you are going to be making tonnes of money. Start small and make targets trying, for example ((1) a website (2) an online shop/ebay shop etc.)
a. 1). get traffic on your website 2). make listings
b. 1, 2). make your first sale
c. 1, 2). make £5 per day of sales
d. 1). increase rankings in google 2). increase profits+stock
etc.
These are just examples but soon if you think about increasing your business it takes time. You are not going to be ranked 1 on google, with hundreds of sales and making thousands of dollars within a month. Maybe some people have as a one off, but they probably got lucky.
I hope people agree with me, and sorry if I sound very negative.
I may seem a bit pesimistic here, but I just saw a thread saying "ignore the negatives" when starting a new business, and I want to put this into context in regards to IM and online businesses.
Obviously, if it is all negative, like his example of "I was reading an article in a property magazine about a young property developer. When he went to buy his first property everyone told him it was a bad idea and he shouldn't do it...now he has a 14 million dollar property portfolio and all those negative people are now asking him to teach them how he did it." This normally happens. But this was mainly all negatives, and this is one success story, but it's not all like that.
Which brings me onto my point. Will all of this positivity and many many stories of how different people are making money online, it really pulls the wool over people's eyes about that fact that is is NOT easy, it is NOT easier than a normal job, and you will NOT be working 1 hour a day and raking in 6 figure incomes like people say, and if people are, it's not within a year or two, it probably took 5-10 years+ realistically, even if years of it were research.
Now of course, a few people might have done this, and like the example above he has a 14 million dollars worth, BUT not everyone - or anywhere near everyone, succeeds like this, or everyone would be a millionaire.
So please, can people make an effort to give a neutral opinion in future, instead of all positive or all negative. I wish people were more honest.
Now fair enough, you can't start a business thinking "I am going to fail", "This isn't going to work", becuase why bother at all. But YOU CAN'T start a business thinking "I WILL make thousands of dollars online", "My business WILL grow into 6-8 figures like other's" and that the quotes given such as the one off 14 million dollar house portfolio will not happen to many people. If you start like that you will give up quickly when you arn't succeeding.
I don't know the full story of the house and 14 million dollars, but in my opinion either he was either clever, had a LOT of time, and/or had money to start it off in the first place, which he obviously did to buy a house. Or he was lucky. It could have been something else of course, not ruling that out.
So, don't start a business, or IM with negative thoughts, and also don't start thinking you are going to be making tonnes of money. Start small and make targets trying, for example ((1) a website (2) an online shop/ebay shop etc.)
a. 1). get traffic on your website 2). make listings
b. 1, 2). make your first sale
c. 1, 2). make £5 per day of sales
d. 1). increase rankings in google 2). increase profits+stock
etc.
These are just examples but soon if you think about increasing your business it takes time. You are not going to be ranked 1 on google, with hundreds of sales and making thousands of dollars within a month. Maybe some people have as a one off, but they probably got lucky.
I hope people agree with me, and sorry if I sound very negative.
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