A Dangerous Mentality in Internet Marketing

Nice post.
I totally agree that there are a lot of people online looking for a quick fix, no work involved and expect to be rich within a few weeks.

It takes hard work, education, and consistent effort to make a steady income and a business online.
I tried and failed quite a few times before I really found my niche and now my product creation line is coming along nicely and I plan to launch my first clickbank and WSO this month so I'm very excited.

Success is in the mind.

Making money is in the one or two ideas that you are committed to doing.

Having an open mind consuming new information always is the key to opening the creativity needed to unleash the power of the mind.

thanks for the great advice! Just starting out, I am very guilty of this get rich quick mindset. I guess it is possible, but more often than not, it only happens to those people who were willing to work at it in the first place.

I also agree with looking for a method and sticking with it. In reading a lot about IM, I've seen that it's pretty much like the real world where a restaurant business is totally different from a car manufacturing business. There are similarities, but it's an entirely new learning process!

For now, starting out, I've decided to stick to online writing!

Love it!
Quick money will always sell.
But it's not a good business model (to expect it).

And anyone who's just starting out and 'get's this' is so far ahead already.
Good news for that person.

Good post.

Your post comes in at a coincidental moment. I been optimizing a page of mine and yesterday I was 9th in Bing... Yes, top 10 for a very competitive keyword. Today I'm second guessing which copy of my page gave me that rank? You see, I tried several copies of a page I keep trying to optimize.

I finally got it down to 2 possible copies and now testing the one I think gave me a top 10 spot and I'm like, ok, this may take a few days before I know if this is the correct optimized copy that placed me in top 10.

I've been 2nd guessing since yesterday. The thing is that... and someone may know the answer. The first thing I checked after IBP told me I was 9th, I checked directly at Bing and threw in my keyword! Low and behold, I wasn't 9th! I wasn't in top 10 at all. I don't get what is going on there. It's as if IBP tells me in advance that Bing will place me 9th!

Anyway... I will wait a while to see which copy is the right one...Sorry for going off topic a bit here...but my point seemed to be relevant with your post and I somehow geared off topic I think...

Bernard

Hi Ryan

Congrats with launching your own product range, I'm not going to be too far behind you...

Totally agree that the "Money for nothing" must buy the next "shiny object" Instant Fix... OBSESSION is RIFE!

Failure rate 97% in IM says it all really... today's society is very much pre-occupied by INSTANT wealth & fame for doing as little as possible.

The only people who gain are the sellers of Instant Wealth creation products, the NINJA instant solutions..

The ONLY instant money solution, I know of has 4 letters and begins with "W".... WORK!

Am I not mistaken?

Keith

If you’re going to promote other people’s products that still requires work; if you buy and resell resale right, master resale right, or private label right products it all requires work. Too many people are lead to believe, and BELIEVE, that all they have to do is put the web page up online and the money will start rolling in, all with NO work.

Sorry to say that the only people making money this way, is those selling the product. I tried too, and I’ve seen other of you do the same thing, to make a product that actually was of value only to be passed by.

Was the product bad? No. What was bad is that we did not offer the people what they want. What do they want? The people want a product that APPEARS to be of value with a promise of fast income.

I hate to say that but I found that to be true. If you develop a product with a great benefit and try to sell just that you’re sales will be limited; but if you develop a so-so product with the appearance of having the potential of making the purchaser a ton of money, you’ll sell hundreds.

So if you are a moral product creator, which from talking to many people here I believe most of you are, the trick becomes developing a product of value and having the potential of making money for those buying the product.

Now this applies if you are selling to the internet marketing crowd; if you develop a product of value for those outside of the IM field you stand a better chance of selling it. But if you are developing a product for a Warrior Special Offer it better have a high potential to directly, or indirectly, make money for those purchasing it; and the quicker the results the better your chances of selling.

This is what I have observed, I may be wrong, but it’s the opinion I’ve formed.

Too many quick fix push butto products of late have led to this problem, sales pags promising the earth and moe for just a smal 37 dollar investmen then around 5 upsells.
The sooner the FTC step in and out a stop to these get tich scamsters then perhaps there wil be change in the ''newbies'' mantatlity too!

Internet marketing takes a lot of training and practice. I think we expect everything to be a quick fix. When we see internet marketing as a money making tool, we have this feeling that we'll start making money within a day or two. That's certainly not the case. You need to work at it otherwise you wont make anything.

Oh where to get started. It's tough being a newbie. A quick fix would be great. I already know it's going to take time, but I still don't want to see too much time wasted. To hit the ground running would be nice.

As a family man with full time job, you don't have too much time to be fumbling much.

Good thoughts.

I think a committed mindset is important. From experience I have succeeded at things(not only talking about INternbet Marketing) when I was committed and sticked to my priorities.

Unfirtunately is something I have been battling with internet marketing specially when I have too much in my plate. I find I used to concentrate easier when had no kids and other things to distract me. Thisis just my experience.

But yes I think instant gratification is dangerous, but it seems nowadays that is very common and not only in internet marketing but if you look at the youth all they want everything and now.


Andrea

I say that this mentality was formed as a result of the so called gurus selling the quick fix dream to aspiring internet marketers.

Start by clocking in 5 hours a day of work I say. And results will come. For me it worked this way.

Instead of going through all of this trouble trying to sell stupid PDF products with hyperlinks, its just best to get a degree and get a 9-5 just like the rest of the world. You'll have a better chance at making money in that aspect.

I totally agree with you here. The blame is on the pioneers of the IM world who have built up this persona of the "Lazy Internet Marketer" who just lays on the beach, occasionally checking his laptop and stacking thousands to millions, simply by pushing a button to get it all started.

Not saying anything negative towards these guys, as if it weren't for them, we probably wouldn't even be here! However, there is a big misconception of the life of an IMer, and that mentality definitely had to be addressed. The saying of working "smarter not harder" is the basis of the IM world. However, there is no dodging hard work, period. Once the newbies understand this, they will be better off.

There is no easy way out in reaching financial freedom, only different routes. In any route that is taken, if you are not afraid to get your hands dirty and endure a little stress, success is right around the corner!

Great post man!