What is holding you back from making $100,000 this month?

Very good post. You are 100% right about this. You NEED to take action, and then analyze how the results are, not the opposite, to think at the results when you even not tried the method.

This post is great and inspiring, thanks for that!

I'll never get tired of repeating that usually success just depends on taking action. Almost every plan out there works, and as you do things, you get experience and can start improving things, leading to even more success.

If you are persistent, amazing things can happen.

I guess its the fear of wasting a load of time with potentially no results to show for it. Earning that kind of money is very hard and all the good intentions in the world won't make it happen.

I totally agree with the "just try it" mantra though. Too many people dither and prevaricate for ages before finally... doing nothing.

The only issue with the title is most people don't believe they can make $20 a day let alone 100k this month. I completely agree with you in the self doubt factor. So what is your solution to help people?

Oh to answer your question of whats my goal its to make some sort of money by sniping and scale those efforts up like a madman making multiple sites. I have 9 hours free time and dedicate 7 towards sniping and 30-1hr in here because its pretty good traffic, exposure, knowledge and networking.

The most common problem is getting traffic to ones website or offers.

I somewhat agree with the above posts...

...although 100K IMO is just unrealistic for most people... and WREAKS of enevitable heartache (if you actually believe you can do it with some "secret").


One such is not having all the skills to implement a strategy (let alone one that WILL get results - there's the uncertainty again).

For example, here's why most won't make 100K now - or EVER for that matter...

- Putting together a product (which includes a freebie giveaway, the first main product, and perhaps an upsell or two). This also implies that the person has all the knowledge he needs to put such a thing together... from researching all the way to technically setting it up.

- Writing sales copy to get the word out... or paying a hefty price with no guarantees.

- Setting up affiliate programs and actually getting partners onboard

- All the other skills that need to be learned like blogs, plugins, and the inevitable (and irritating) bugs that come with learning them.

- Learning essential skills such as SEO, keyword research, etc... without having tangible results to see if they are learning it correctly.

I could go on... and I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but there is no magic pill folks.

It's been echoed throughout this forum so many times and "take action!" has jst become a cliche.

The fact is, unless you've got a few grand to drop on outsourcing all this stuff, than you are going to have to slog it out and learn some skills.

That's what I think holds most people back. But it's not impossible.

If you spent a day on each skill learning the bare minimum... following video tutorials (which are easily found for FREE all over the web) - then you have what it takes to succeed... just don't have unrealistic expectations.

The constant pep-talks on this forum entertain me.

I'm guessing that most people aren't geeks like us hardcore marketers so it's not as straight forward as some want it to be (or believe it to be thanks to over-promising and under-delivering sales hype).

Put in the required effort - and stop looking at offer after offer and figure out what you NEED to know...

Happy days!

- Dean

just curious, where to find people will offer $500K for 100 articles? how many people can finish these 100 articles in 2 days?


david

What's holding me from making that much is myself, Sometime i doubted myself of making 100k a month. because i think it is to much money to make in one. But i have it as one of my goal..And I always achieve my goal!!!!

Great Post

......Reality.

You must start small but must you?

You can grow pretty fast with all the resources available to you and make a ton of money if you do the right stuff.

this post rings true with me. when i started i smashed out the articles and genuinely good content on my sites. from this i have seen a number of sales in my first month. soon after however, my conversion rate dropped, and now google has knocked over at least 3 of my sites. this is majorly tough on morale, especially when you work at home on your own.

currently trying to power through this by continuing to add content, but my article writing has slacked off BIG time.

after reading this thread though, i'm going to open Word and knock out a couple of new articles on my two major niches, so thank you for making me believe - at least for the next 30 minutes!

This post is very inspiring and makes me want to be precise!

action amtters a lot. i feel nothing can stop me from achiving that amount but it takes time and patience. then work ahed to discover so that you can really recover. thanks for this post.

Thanks for the tuneup. We all need them now and again.

It starts between our two ears.

Planning And Confidence.

Having systems in place, because when a person gears up to that, it has got to be sustainable. As well, all the customer support has to be in place. Otherwise a person may crash and burn big time and take his reputation with it.

So by reverse engineering it, the formula can be worked up to getting there for a lot of us.

It is one reason I am listening to some brainwave entrainment tonight on confidence. I am taking a big step forward this month.

I don't think it was as simple as 1 million in 24 hours but more like 1 million after several months of hard work and promotion.

How long had he been working on and promoting that product before its release? If it was more than 10 months then he didn't make 100k a month.

How many million dollar launches does the average big name have in a year?

Just a little perspective to bring those big number down to reality.

Great replies...

It seems the common denominator is certainty and taking action.
MASSIVE ACTION.

I'm glad this has inspired many of you and I hope it kicks you in the
butt! It's scary to know that gold is just a few skills away.

Master sales.
You'll make it happen.
Blessings all around,
Gil

Usually it's because of analysis paralysis. People spend so much time looking and reading that they forget to DO.

Planning usually holds me back from making my $100,000 per month! I kept on planning and planning, dreaming and dreaming and spending in my sleep. That is why I only earn in my sleep as well. Real money comes in only if you take action while you are awake. Stop being a scaredy cat and do what you can do to earn- its what I tell to myself.

Andrea

I thing $100k is a masive jump would be very!! happy with $20k.

Awesome post. The thing about it is that submitting your articles to directories and 2.0 pages is completely free if you are willing to give a small amount of your time, and if your not it won't cost an arm and a leg to have it outsourced. However, I wouldn't build a business model on submitting articles and building 2.0 pages alone. Use whatever resources you have at hand to bring traffic and ultimately those dollars rolling in.

FEAR stops most people from taking enough ACTION.

Then those that do take lots of action often get bogged down in stuff that isn't that important in terms of actually generating income.

Those that overcome fear, take massive action and focus on what is important make the most money.

Sam

Fantastic Post! I agree with you 100% alot of people including me like to play a safe bet and do what is comfortable to them. However I still think anyone can do $100,000 a month if they really wanted. But for this we will need a focused action plan and also to be certian that we get a good ROI:

Money makes money. If you haven't the wherewithall to get started you can't start. Still waiting for the guru who doesn't charge and will accept the money after it has been made

I would be happy with makind 2k a month.

Hey Gil, you touched a great point.

Most people don't do it because as you said they want
success guaranteed, but remember that nothing in life is
guaranteed except death.

The difference between successful people and unsuccessful
people is this...

Successful people see an opportunity and they take it, they
take risks. While unsuccessful people see an opportunity and
don't take it unless it is 100% guaranteed that they will
succeed.

When you see an opportunity you have to take it and work on
it. The name of the game is speed of implementation.

On the other hand, many people try something for a couple of
days and when they see it doesn't work the way they thought
they move on to another thing.

Let's say that you want to use article marketing to generate
traffic. Submitting a couple of articles to article
directories and sitting back to wait for traffic is what
most people do in for this reason they say it doesn't
work...

You have to test, track and use different approaches to see
what really works for you.

Pick one thing and stick to it, test different approaches
and measure. If you do this you can make all the money you
want, the point is that people are too lazy and want easy
money.

Thanks,
^PV Reymond

Great post, really inspiring.

I think it is quite likely the lack of certainty and fear of wasting a load of time you both mention and more than that... it is simply knowing that it is not going to happen. I don't mean that in negative way I just mean it in a realistic way based on the results.

Of course, if writing 100 articles would generate $500k people would do it. I think most people would do it if they would get $5k. Heck, there are probably a lot of people who are doing it for $500 (one-time as in article writers). It just depends on what it's worth for a person. To some people $500 is a good amount of money for writing 100 articles. For others $5,000 is worth the time.

Heck, I would write many more articles or build many more web pages if they actually produced even $1 per article or web page per month on average.

And I know that loads of people will be tempted to reply and say if you're not averaging at least $1 per article or web page per month then you are doing something very wrong! Yes, I know that everyone else is making huge money from this stuff and I must be doing something terribly wrong! ha ha! Because out of hundreds of articles and thousands of web pages I average no where close to $1 per month for each article and web page. So, it is not a lack of doing... it is more a problem of the value of the work.

That being said I do the work. Continually building. Just saying there is more to it to get anywhere close to $100k. A lot more is needed than simply researching and writing a lot of articles or creating a lot of web pages. If it was as easy as simply doing a lot of work I'd be rich from Internet Marketing right now.

Why not having a smaller goal and scale them up once you have achieve the target. If the goal is too high you may get demotivated should you not achieve them. For those who have not made any money online may want to make the 1st dollar and scale up from there. It's all about putting effort on a continuous basis. Time is also an important factor since you have to invest in education, implementation, testing and etc. Unless you have the budget you may outsource almost everything and achieve a faster result.

You don't just wake up one day and shoot for $100k per month right off the bat. It is a culmination of a series of goals that get progressively bigger. It'd not be very practical to shoot for $100k per month without any intermediary goals, unless you're already making somewhat close to that amount.

What is keeping the majority of us from reaching this goal? You mentioned certainty, but certainty is in the eyes of the beholder. No one can really have guaranteed certainty of this occurring, but we can have faith and belief. Without this faith and belief, we'd not be taking action at all, because in our eyes the action would be pointless.

The key to reaching a lofty goal is faith, the kind of faith that makes it all but a certainty in your mindset and thinking. When can have that kind of faith, you'll possess the capability to take the type of action that will have you attaining this goal!

Paul

Really inspiring post. It make you realize that someone is making $100k today and that person is a human being just like you.