Spotting Opportunities & Having The Skillset To Capitalize On Them

We're all here for one major goal: to make more money. That's a given. However, making money online isn't all about gimmicks and systems like so many of us here have been led to believe. It's rampant in the WSO section -- how I made $xx,xxx in 24 hours using a Pinterest bot. Implement the system, rinse, and repeat, right? Except it doesn't always go like that. I'll let you in on why later. For now, I want to let you in on a bit of knowledge that was passed down to me.

It's actually pretty simple when you think about it, but putting that theory into action is far from simple. It's why so many people here are stuck in the "information overload" zone, and why so many gurus are making bank keeping them stuck. Those gurus are able to spot opportunities, and have the marketing and technical prowess able to pull off connecting the dots. They are able to create their own systems; the type of systems so many people buy into here in the WSO section.

There's one major flaw with these systems and gimmicks, though. They rarely work by the time you get your hands on them. It's actually another example of the guru taking advantage of an opportunity. They know that once they have personally abused a system and tapped it out, causing their profits to dry up, that the system can be easily sold to unsuspecting people in random forums around the internet. And because the system worked for the guru, or opportunity spotter, it's easy to write up some fancy sales copy, paste in some amazing screenshots, and then parlay back into raking it in.

If you were to attempt using the system, you'll figure out that the opportunity your guru friend once saw was dried up, and required you to jump through tremendous amounts of hurdles to actually pull off in the same way. Take our Pinterest bot example for instance. The bot may have worked for the guru to make some coin, but then Pinterest caught on, or the bot's developer took off, or the guru decided he was done working the "system" and it quit working for him as well as it did. That's when the guides and "systems" come finding their way into the WSO section -- and your wallet.

If you want to get rich; like, actually wealthy; you're going to have to learn to spot opportunities. Not just on the internet, but everywhere in life. You'll never know where an opportunity will pop up that, when you have the skills, will help you find your way into your own little "system" that works perfect for you.

The skills that you need to learn to build a digital empire are technical, and marketing / psychology. You can take care of the technical hurdles through repetition. If you get stuck somewhere along the way, say installing a theme or a plugin or something, go to YouTube. Once you do the task a single time, it's fairly easy for your brain to store it away.

Marketing, on the other hand, is an art. One that requires you to use your guts and gumption to act. When you hear people talking about it taking years to "make money online" it's because of the learning curve. In my opinion, once you have the technical stuff out of the way, start working immediately. You'll learn more about marketing through trial and error than you ever will in a WSO or on someone's blog, or email list. Once you understand what it means to pick someone out with a problem, and help them find a solution that helps you get paid, you'll be ahead of the pack and actually able to create your own systems.

SEO, Facebook, YouTube, Guest Posting, all of the rest, they're all opportunities for you to sell something to somebody. Whether in an active way through paid traffic, or a more passive way in which you'd use guest posting to get people onto your blog, where you can sign them up to an email list, and start offering them up solutions to their problems as time goes on. If you don't understand how to sell something to somebody, all of these marketing channels are going to be useless for you. You're still not able to spot the opportunities.

Once you understand that you actually have to sell something to somebody, whether that's pure information, an eBook, a physical product, or even some advertising space, you'll be closer to spotting new opportunities that you can capitalize on. Digital marketing gives you the opportunity to sell stuff without actually having to be there -- which is why it's so popular, but also lends to the reason so many people fail out. Rather than spending your time learning how to make money online, spend your time learning why what you're reading works the way it does.

If you want to make money online, take up freelancing. It's another job that you get to do from home, and say that you're your own boss. If you want to take control over your financial future, you're going to have to start looking for opportunities -- aka niches. Then you need to build the technical skillset required to be able to actually navigate your way around the internet without too much stress, and the marketing chops to be able to sell things to people.

When you have the technical learning curve behind you, and you've done enough marketing tests on your own to understand what you're looking at, you'll start spotting opportunities. You are going to have to spend time testing, though. Otherwise, all of the information you've learned is absolutely useless. Doing all of this will build up your personal confidence, which is crucial to success in any endeavor you take on.

Develop your marketing skills (finding buyers to connect with sellers). Watch YouTube videos to figure out the technical stuff. Start using platforms where a lot of people hang out, and then figure out how you can solve their problems. Once you start seeing the opportunities, and have the enough confidence in your skillset to trust your gut and pull the trigger, you'll start killing it. You'll be able to connect the dots between A and B, help people solve some of their problems, and make some coin at the same time.

Then you'll have to deal with only have 24 hours in the day. That means the more automated, the better. Save that one for next time, though.