7 Years Studying Affiliate Marketing?
You don't hear from me often - I tend to do more reading here than posting. But something is bothering me today that I felt compelled to write about.
I had a long phone conversation with a gentleman the other day who sounded serious about making money online. He claimed he has 50 domains and plans to build each one of them selling a specific niche product. His domain names are perfect for the products, so SEO should be a piece of cake. And the products are hot sellers, so making money should be simple.
He seemed to have a well thought out plan to make a decent living online.
Except one thing...
He complained that nothing worked right. For instance, he wanted to use a certain WP theme to build all of his sites. But the theme didn't work the way he thought it should. "It should do X, Y and Z, but all it does is A, B and C." And the affiliate program he's monetizing his sites with "should work this way but instead it works that way."
I'm very familiar with the WP theme he was using so I tried to explain to him what he was doing wrong and how to do it the right way. But he didn't want to hear it. He said "well, it should also do X, Y and Z." I responded with "but it wasn't made to do that." I'm also very familiar with the affiliate programs, so again I gave him tips and information.
I explained that these products/programs had been built the way the developers wanted them to work, and I suggested that he hire someone to build exactly what he was looking for. But he pooh-poohed that idea. In fact, he said (in no uncertain terms) that "these people should pay *me* for my ideas on how to improve their products and websites."
That totally blew my mind. I finally asked how long he had been doing affiliate marketing and his answer blew me away even more.
He said (after a few seconds' hesitation) "I've been studying it for 7 years but I haven't made anything yet."
This guy has a *solid* plan to make money but all he seems to want to do is find excuses not to get his websites up and running. He seems to want to criticize everything along the way because it's not up to par in his opinion.
The point I'm trying to make here is that you can't earn without doing. Spinning your wheels like this guy will get you nowhere. Finding excuses and criticizing everything in sight will get you nowhere.
Please, people, if you want to get anywhere in this world, you need to *do* whatever it takes to get where you want to go.
<getting off my soapbox now>
Denise
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