Negativity is rather common these days for trying to make money online. 3-5 years ago all you had to do was literally push a button and scrape a bunch of crap off the interwebs and make some money. Competition seemed non-existent. That changed quickly to the point where actual effort and hard work came into play. The Internet is mostly free. People expect making money to be free as well. For many reasons people do not want to invest in making money online. Time and/or money. The problem is exacerbated by stories of people talking about writing 100 pages to post on their site and collecting $2K in a matter of weeks. It seems easy but it’s not. These people spend 18 hours a day researching keywords and writing crap. The vast majority of us do not have the motivatation or time or both to accomplish this.
I troll around to various forums and read the frustrations of people. They think that just because they sling up a few websites full of thirty 400 page posts and get a few backlinks that money should just roll in. This may happen for some people but that is because they have some very powerful backlinks to draw from to help them get ranked for their keywords. The average newbie typically does not have that resource. I hate to break it to some but it has been my experience that some sites, no matter how much effort you put into it, or how good your articles are, will simply not succeed. You have to move on. It is terribly frustrating to spend time on things and it not make any money. I live it.
Unless you can create a true authority site that you can collect monthly fees from or that gets tons of well paying traffic, you are going to be forced to build a lot of niche sites to make money in this gig. Not all niches are going to make money. Finding good keyword phrases that you can compete with is not easy or fun to me. Keyword tools are deceptive at best.
When a family member or someone asks me about building websites and making money I always tell them what they don’t want to hear. I start explaining what I do and the glaze starts forming over their corneas. They fully expect me to relay to them the Internet success they read from this salespage or that which show some tool standing in front of his Mercedes and mansion. Nobody wants to hear how this guy is simply a good salesman and pawns shit off to wannabe rich people. The Internet just happens to be the easiest and most captive audience these days. It used to be the back of a magazine.
So I explain how I build websites. Do keyword research. Get backlinks. Build feeder blogs and pages for “money sites”. Nobody wants to put in this kind of effort. Particularly once you reveal that many times the effort is for naught. Hell most times I don’t want to put in that effort.
I fully expect that of 10 websites I build, 3 might actually amount to something. 1 might be a big hit. Your mileage may vary as they say. Good for you. Just relaying the stats from my experience. Not only does it happen with websites but I’ve found this is happening with Hubpages as well.
It is a grind. It’s not so much building a site that is the problem but it is the promotion that becomes more important and time consuming. It’s really tough to spend all that time building a 30 page site then have to continue writing more shit for EzineArticles and AMA and TKA. Then of course you want to build supporting Squidoo Lens and Hubpages. Maybe something on Infobarrel. grind, grind, grind.
Then of course the monetization can eff with you too. You build this charming niche site and find yourself ranked #1 for all your favorite keywords. You splash some Google ads on the top left and wait for the ensuing clicks. You check your stats at the end of the month and find that you collected an average of $1 a day. How exciting. But wait, the keywords are supposed to be worth $3 a click. What happened? Hell if I know. Adsense can be funny like that. At least that’s the way it mocks me.
The point of this post? I dunno. I was reading some posts from folks not happy that they couldn’t seem to make money online. They were doing what their guru said to do. Or following the ebook they bought. Or following the blueprint. Or using their new tool. Something just wasn’t clicking for them. I understand the pain. But I also understand the reality and that is they stop or assume that this is easy. I think I’ve been at this for 5 years in earnest now. Not one single step of the way has this been easy. For some people they put the effort in, work 18-20 hours a day, find a way to write 10,000 words each day and make $500 every day. And here you are happy that your Adsense account broke $10 for the day. Yep, been there.
If you are trying to make money writing articles and promoting the work then it is my opinion that this racket will continue to get harder. The competition will stiffen. I hear you when you say there are a ton of keywords and a ton of niches to mine. All I know is every year trying to create a niche site for money gets harder. Particularly new ones. Those that have been in my stable for a couple of years do alright. I can add some content to them or find another place to add a backlink. Some I haven’t touched in a long while and still rank. But building new niche sites that can make money RIGHT NOW is more difficult today than it was yesterday.
I sort of have to laugh at the effort to create a money making site from scratch. 30-40 well written, keyword researched and targeted articles. Then a few more articles to spray into Ezine. Maybe AMA. Build some Hubpages and Lens for added support. Do some bookmarking and RSS submissions. Repeat the Ezine effort each week for a few months. Bam. You are on the first page of big G after a few months. Making a couple of dollars a day. Sweet. Uh oh. You just slipped down a few notches. Your Adsense income dropped to 50 cents a day. No problemo. You start writing a couple of more article for Ezine. There that’ll fix it. Now back to my other site I was building. Wait, shouldn’t I write an article for that OTHER site I built? And what about getting links for the 15 Hubpages I built to support all three of these sites I built three months ago. Wait, what am I supposed to do about the the two sites that I built 2 months ago? And I still haven’t finished the three for this month.
5 years ago I put up a site that had, and still has, 13 pages of content for a well-respected keyword phrase. In a couple of weeks I was amazed that it popped up in Yahoo and Google on the first page. It hasn’t left that spot in 5 years. The sites that I built 5 years ago have done better than anything that I have built since. Sure the age is a huge deal in the rankings. But I was ahead of the competition. I wish I had built more in those days instead of screwing around with bullshit techniques.
Makes you wonder if you should just build five sites and pound them. But you are thinking, what if three doesn’t work? What if they all fail. Shouldn’t I have a backup plan and continue building? Maybe yes. Maybe no. If you build, say, five sites and hammer them, then it is infinitely easier to concentrate backlinks and additional content to those sites. Then again all five may suck ass and not make any money. Diversity is good. Until you try to maintain all that diversity. I haven’t figured out the best way to handle it. I keep building because I want more money. The sites that are making money for me seem steady and consistent. Why mess with a good thing? Then again maybe I could push them hard possibly making more money. Or screwing them up. On the other hand they already rank #1 in Google. Exactly how much more can they be pressed? Seems I have more to lose than gain. So I keep building in the hopes I can capture more success. But I can’t keep up nor stay motivated.
You are going to hear/read people call bullshit on this post. That they do fantastic getting their brand new sites ranked. That they have no problem finding well-paying keywords for Adsense. That they can build affiliate sites that churn through sales like gurus through spam. I say fantastic. Well done. All I know is that I can follow something like TKA to the letter and still have apparently more difficult finding something worthwhile to build a site or Hubpage on these days. And it gets harder every day.
And frankly I do not see it getting any easier. We’ll continue to mine the niches. But this work will get harder and harder. I’m not so sure that so called authority sites is not the way to go. Bullshit little niche blogs with dubious content is probably going to go the way of keyword generated sites of yesterday. With more and more people piling onto the web and more and more sites being built, your sites will have to be quality to rank well. No, this is not going to be the case absolutely. There are a lot of niches to mine and tons of keywords that pay. But what I do know is that making money online today is harder than yesterday. You just may not realize it because you have been conditioned that all this writing is the norm. It used to not be the norm just a few years ago.
Success is not going to be easy. No matter what you read. No matter what tool you buy. Outsourcing may be the way to go but there are so many issues with that. Particularly if you are trying to nickel and dime it. It may be better to simply buy quality you can trust. Pay $10 an article, get 30 of them, pay the $300 and post to your site. You know? It sucks but I’m not certain that a few years down the road having posted mediocrity is going to serve you well. The stuff I posted when I first started out was my own creation. My own research. I had not heard of PLR. It still ranks. I then started posting dupe content scraped or PLR trash from non-English speakers or spun articles a couple of years ago. Those site are nowhere to be found in the search engines with few exceptions. Yea blackhatters will tell you this shit still works but it doesn’t stay good for long. Reason is all those sites need backlinks. The best links are those collected organically. Mediocrity or shit will not be linked to. I still get links to my old sites.
This has been a long rant/whine/ramble. Just throwing out some ideas and where my head is at. I’ve seen the frustration people experience in this game. No one can tell you what is best. You simply have to push ahead and try shit. Never quit. But I think in the future, unfortunately, quality will overtake volume, ya know? If anything I’ve got to start adjusting to that fact.
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Seems like your head is always in the same place. Good thing we have you to weed out some of the competition. What can we do to get you to the first page of Google with this rant so that everyone will give up?
BTW..I write all my own material for all my blogs. Period. If I am going to fail or succeed, it will be with my own material. No shortcuts, just keep pounding the material out and the links in. It sure beats any 9 to 5 I know of.
Heh, yea I guess the condensed version of this thing is:
I’ve seen the frustration, nothing about this stuff is easy now and it is not likely to get any easier tomorrow. Plan accordingly.
Sounds to me like you do nothing but chase your tail. Why are you messing around with adsense? That’s your first problem.
Create your own products and you will begin to see the light. You remind me of my naysaying brother!
Oh it’s not that easy. Oh there has to be a catch. It must be illegal. Those guys are all faking it, there aren’t any of them making any real money.
You my friend are not thinking big enough. You are chasing pennies when the Benjamin’s are falling all around you.
Not sure what you are getting at. All I’m essentially saying is that this stuff is hard work. All of it. Are you saying that creating your own product is easy? If so, that’s great. Good for you. Lots of people would disagree with that assessment. Last I heard was that building a product line was every bit as hard as creating content. Why would you put down a program that generates a ton of money for thousands of website owners? Why would I bother creating a product when I can passively collect money? Doesn’t seem like a problem to me at all. Just hard work. When have I ever said anyone is doing anything illegal? When have I ever said any of these guys are faking it? I really don’t give a shit how people make money online. I really don’t give a shit how much, or little, anybody makes. I know who I will and will not support online (Funny how that bothers people when you aren’t behind their favorite guru. God help you if you criticize. Sort of like politics). The list is and remains very small. My savings account suggests that the benjamins fall just fine with Adsense and affiliate programs. I think enough to save, invest and have fun with the money I create.
Again the point is that I was thinking about the frustration I see from a folks on various forums. Whether you are creating your own shit to sell or building sites full of information and monetizing with affiliate programs or Adsense, my sense is that making money online is not easy. Hasn’t been easy. And will continue to not be easy.
I think any information that is earnest is valuable in the game when so many people are spouting BS.
I enjoyed this post for that reason.
The industry will continue to get harder, but for me things are getting easier.
I always look for ways to build a competitive advantage over others… how to build sites faster, how to rank them faster etc etc…. so I am not doing the same stuff as everyone else.
If my tools ever burn out to the point of uselessness THEN I may put together a long sales page with testimonials from people that look like their pics were lifted of http://fugly.net/ sell them for $49….
If the information is being sold by a “Guru” as opposed to being USED by a “Guru” its more than likely burned out worthless crap….
splork, your post keeps getting depressing by the day.
Don’t give up, buddy. Hang in there…
I think yoda sums it up best:
“Do or do not. There is no try.”
Cheers,
Mohd Nizam
I do think that it is more difficult today than it was 5 to 10 years ago. However, I don’t think increasing competition is the big factor. Most competition is either lazy, incompetent or incompetently lazy.
One factor right now is that the economy is in the crapper and may stay there a while. This reduces the number of buyers as compared to 2004-2006 or the dotcom boom era. When someone is worried about having a job next week they aren’t likely to plunk down $7 on a fishing ebook or buy something on eBay. Also, the poor state of the economy reduces the number of advertisers running marketing campaigns and most of those that do run them are spending less.
Next, there has been a huge increase in rules and regulations both from government and corporations. Google’s stranglehold on online search advertising has make it tough for that market. eBay’s chipping away at both sellers and affiliates has made that one tough. Then we have the states and federal government trying to tax and regulate anything that moves.
Overall, I do think that having your own products/services is becoming one of the more profitable ways to make money online. But, this is a much harder course than slapping up niche affiliate marketing mini-sites or blogs.
Yea I have to agree with a couple of things above. One, Jez is right. For me too things are getting easier as far as building a site. If only because I have no problem writing. Though I find getting a site ranked is more difficult if only because you really have to go into the weeds to find shit to rank easily for. Keyword research takes a lot more effort. Getting ranked also requires lots more backlinks. You either get backlinks through organic growth or black/gray hat means. Either way it takes a lot of work to make your site worthwhile to rank for or go through the blackhat dance.
Frank may be right. The competition may not be the problem. The economy certainly is not helping. Though from my own Adsense numbers people do not have a problem clicking around. Google’s quarterly numbers indicate advertising online is not slowing much. Taxes and regulations are going to have an interesting impact in the next few years.
I’ll try to be less pessimistic in future posts. Unicorns and rainbows. Motivate instead of deflate. Like a guberu salepitch.
I’ve been poking around your site for a few weeks and I have to agree with everything you’ve been saying.
It’s taken me about 3 years to actually figure out how the “Make Money Online” game really works. Unfortunately I’m just as lazy as the next guy. I don’t want to spend 18 hours a day cranking out articles, obtaining links, and littering the internet highway…I want to have a normal life where I can get away from the computer and let my sites work for me instead of them controlling every aspect of my daily life.
There was going to be something useful to this comment, but my brain decided to crap out…
I’ll finish by kissing butt and saying that I appreciate the way you’ve written your blog… keep it up.
- Dusty
Thanks for reading Dusty. ‘fraid there is no getting around the work required to make the big money in this game. Balance is something that I constantly fight. Motivation and the desire to make money. Sitting in front of a 15 inch screen all day versus enjoying real world activities.
I love your blog and posts like this in particular because I am always trying to decide what to do for my next project, and the agonizing usually revolves around whether to build a niche site or an authority site. Your honesty is refreshing.
AUTOMATE
DELEGATE
OUTSOURCE
FTW
I’m serious, its the only way to get to the next level
@Frank , agreed
bk
Thanks for reading J.
I don’t disagree bk. But it’s kind of sad that it has come to this. Having to try to scheme your backlinks, or outsource, etc. etc. It’s not an innocent game anymore. If you want the money you have to invest time or money. Again, the point is that it is simply harder today than yesterday.
yeah , I get your point, I wasn’t around in the good ole days so I don’t have comparisons.
When I say outsource, auto..etc. I don’t mean to diffuse the efforts of those that don’t because its not absolutely necessary. It’s kind of a mindset thing for me. Time/Money Thing.
Example, I am starting a project on Nov 1 to build 150 pages of content. My goal is to have that 150 pages of content producing 3k per month by Mar. 2010. Here is the kicker, I am going to outsource 90% of the project.
and do you know what I am going to do? Yup, I am going to do it again X’s 10.
On the surface it looks easy enough, BUT to get 150 pages bringing in 3k its going to take serious work. I am estimating some 18k backlinks and 4500 pages of content + hundreds of supporting sites.
This is what I mean by the next level, what if its successful and by March the pages are making 3k? What if it cost me 15k to do it? Well, I will be happy as a pig covored in shit
The bad thing about my project is that kind of thinking will eventually prevail in the SEM world and it will make it way more difficult for a noob to have any success (If not impossible) in the future. They will all live in the Warrior Forum and sell WFO’s back and forth to each other. (oops they already do that)
If my project is successful then we know the internet and SEM is still an infant and still very inefficient. The ROI’s are still very juicy, but it won’t be that way forever.
Its very similar to real estate, the Roi’s on real estate are very thin. I guarantee you won’t buy a building for 150k that will throw off 30k month NET.
We are still in the Wild West but our Real Estate are WORDS, we buy and sell WORDS.
haha my bitch 5th grade English teacher was right after all.
bk
I started in February 09 and already there have been changes that make things harder for people just starting out. One is the built-in handicap for free platforms like Blogger and Wordpress–sure, Griz still ranks #1 with a Blogger blog, but he started more than 2 years ago. These freebies are taking longer to index and more backlinks to rank, which increases the pressure to cash out for a domain to avoid adding to my already huge workload.
The other handicap is Google’s Vince/trust update in March, which I’m slowly seeing the results of over the summer and fall. Basically it’s like affirmative action for large, corporate-owned websites like Amazon and About.com (which is owned by the New York Times). Have you noticed that those previously uncompetitive keyword niches suddenly have a PR5 Amazon or About page sitting up on the top half of the SERPs where there used to be one more PR0 shit niche site like ours? I don’t know how hard they’ll be to knock off, but they didn’t used to be there at all.
It’s just the game–we get smarter, the search engines get smarter, round she goes.
Oh my god mate… you should shoot yourself.
i agree with you splork. making money online is hardwork. i’ve been working in internet related jobs for the past 10+ years, so earning a living online has been the greatest experience.
working as a designer/developer wasting countless hours being the point person for others people projects, had me completely burnt out, so i decided to venture out and do my own thing.
i have no problem writing and can easily type a 1000+ word post in a few hours. (with a few errors lol).
however after reading and following a few other folks (including griz) i decided that making 5-8 super authority sites i’m actually interested in works better for me.
i spent money on niche domains, but can never seem to get any motivation to work on them, even when the keyword research suggests they are for sure money makers.
so i’ll stick with what i know (and have a passion for). making money online is hard, but it beats dealing with a boss and needy as web development clients!
arsha
bk. Yep for niche sites it seems to be all about the words. Of course ecomm sites barely have any words so I’m not sure what the answer is anymore.
Really Martin? So nice of to say.
Lorecee. Yea you get my point. Good comment.
byow, I think ultimately everyone would like to have a few authority sites that could make a few grand a piece. Lots easier keeping them fed and promoted than having hundreds if not thousands of niche sites spread around.
Hey, I just found your blog, although I’d heard about it before I never actually clicked the link on Ben’s or Grizzly’s or whoever’s site to drop by. Then I was looking for more info on the Nomad’s Guide to make money online and lo and behold your site popped up.
Anyway, great site and about this post topic…
So true. I started learning how to really make money online about 3 months ago now, and started actually applying what I was learning about a month ago. I’ve already seen systems that were considered foolproof and forever working go down the drain due to nothing by the passage of time. And half the resources out there that people in this field constantly refer to using seem to be outdated in some way that skews their effectiveness.
Sometimes I wish internet marketing would just stop in time. I can deal with the growth of competition. I can deal with waiting for sites to be ranked. I can even deal with the changes that Google seems to under go every day. I just wish I could catch up to the current status quo and then deal with it all instead of having to learn what I don’t know, and then hope the info isn’t obsolete tomorrow.
Great post again, peace.
Thanks for reading Broke Affiliate. Glad you stopped by.
Splork,
I gotta tell ya bud… there were some depressing points, some high points and well some straight out ranting in this post but good on ya.
The truth about adsense, affiliate marketing, writing ebooks what ever the hell you or anyone else wants to do to make money on the “interwebs ” (I love that by the way) it’s freaking hard work.
Is it easier then going to a cube job 9-5 every day?
If you love it then yes… If you hate it… Buy a vending machine or something. There’s no free lunch, no money trees and you’re 100% right it’s gonna get harder.
I think all of these people whining in the forums etc. just aren’t in touch with the fact that this is real business.
Money has to change hands for us to make money. So we’re dealing with real humans… You need to piece together something of value, put your time in and work it to get something out of it.
I’m glad you wrote this post it was needed and if people feel it’s too harsh… Then move on over maybe the web ain’t the place for them.
Cheers,
Spikey
Cool. Thanks for reading Spikey.
Hey Splork.
Yep, making money online is hard work — people are just starting to realize this. One thing I see pretty prevailent is the whole idea that you can make money on the internet easy. As you say, a few years ago, you could just scrape some content and make the money. The game’s changed and making money online needs to be treated like a business.
That means putting those full time hours in. I can tell you, if you are willing to treat this game like a regular job (sit down and do productive work — and I mean actual work, not bullshitting around online, which is so easy to do), you can see some pretty good results. But it takes months of this — most people can’t take it.
But once you get your foot in the door, it gets much easier. You start to get a lot of little strategies and see what niches may and may not work. It all adds together and it’s way easier to find sucess.
Easy money? No way in hell. You can make an amazingly high income online with time and a lot of work, but it’s got to be treated and managed like a job. I suppose once you reach Grizzly’s level, it’s all autopilot — you can use your big bucks to buy money making authority sites and keep on adding to your totals. You can also outsource practically everything and buy whole sites to get link juice. But until you reach that level, it’s a battle.
Hey Ben. I can remember slinging 5 sites a day with a directory scraper and easily making $1/day per site. Unfortunately I came in at the last part of that goodness and by the time I was doing well it ceased to work. The progression was to blogs and content. Every year it has gotten harder. Just have to deal.
You really do have to work your ass off to get to a level where you can buy sites or outsource. Anyone can make some coin slinging Adsense site after Adsense site. But the model is not sustainable for long. Too consuming. Too boring. Hell, if you have the money you are better off to simply buy your way in.
Splork does it again – Write a great post which many people don’t really want to hear, but needs saying.
Yes, it is getting harder and harder. There isn’t much I can add on to what you said.
Well, one good whine deserves a rant:
I am tired of marketing babble. Marketing–and IM above all–is heavily infected by “the bezzle” [http://market-ticker.denninger.net/archives/857-The-Bezzle-Defined.html]–very interesting article by a very smart guy.
I’m so tired of reading “if you buy this you will reach the promised land.” Of course, this is far from the case. Unless you are already knowledgeable in a dozen other matters, you discover you will absolutely need to “enhance” the product–with the marketer’s jv partners of course. How many marketers have the integrity to frame their as offering an important or even essential piece of the jigsaw puzzle, but come right out and let you know you’ll need these other things to make everything work, and that they cost money? Not one in a hundred marketers has the integrity to do that. I can think of two. So most people happily pay $X for the product, only to discover that the product may be ok, but that it is just a small piece of the puzzle, and by no means the golden key to the kingdom of affiliate marketing they were told it is.
So here is my rant:
This one is about the “one week” Squidoo plan that a certain “Potpie Girl” came up with, and that you should buy because, “if I had to do it over again…,” etc. Yep, you are so lucky you’re reading this, because this is the one I’d tell my own brother to do. It’s so easy I’d even tell my own aged mother to do it, and she can barely figure out emails!
So I go to her FAQ section, and discover, among other things, that she also has a Wordpress tutorial site. Well, we didn’t just fall off the turnip truck! Either this Squidoo stuff is icing on the cake or it is part of the cake. Guess which. And anyway, what did you expect? Besides, you have to realize that Wordpress blogs and Squidoo “work together like a charm!” So I continue going through through all the little side roads. There’s the wordpress blogs, the 6-step niche sites, the 250 plug-ins info that you “gotta” have for 10 dollars. Of course, you can’t “really” make a killing with those blogs unless you have the info from “Wordpress Goldmine.”
And don’t start whining. Although the “one week” system promises no further expenses, only people wet behind the ears think they’re going to get away with that! So our marketer gushes: “As much as I would love to tell you that there is no cost involved in owning your own niche websites, it simply is not true. When it comes time that you are ready to own virtual real estate on the internet, please be sure of the costs involved. The good news is that these costs are minimal.” Isn’t it a relief that we have credit cards? So stop stressing! You’ll soon be making so much it’ll all be a drop in the bucket!
Our author is also a “proud member” of Wealthy Affiliate. Who can live without them? So think seriously of joining them, and don’t be a wuss about it! And let me add a quick note: “The 6 Step Niche Site System will NOT go into PPC.” Well, that’s a relief. I’m sure we’ll take that trip after we join Wealthy Affiliate.
But even the best of us, already earning in excess of 100k a year with our little “one week” lenses–and nothing more, it goes without saying (remember, I promised)–always stand to learn more about the unfathomably profound nature of Squidoo, so don’t put your wallet away before ponying up for “Squidoo Cash Machine.” And don’t bitch and moan: it made me 6 sales in four days, and that’s just for starters! Yes, I know I made 6 sales in four days with my original method too, but don’t change the subject! In all honesty, if I had to throw all my knowledge away except for one book, including my own book, which you thankfully already bought, this would be the keeper. If I lost it all, I could make all my money back in weeks with this information alone–it’s that powerful.
Now peek under the flap of this bad boy and you realize that “you only need one stealth strategy to TOTALLY dominate your niche”: “Dr. Noel’s book on “blackhat” traffic techniques. Fortunately, he also offers a “free article course,” that doubtless takes you down another merry many-branched path of the wonderful world of affiliate commissions for all.
At this point, you begin to wonder about the promises that were made about avoiding the infamous information overload, and wonder just how much of all this cornucopia you’re going to have buy in order not to become another miserable failure “crushed” by your competition. But not to worry, there’s the “Learnitstepbystep” plan (really, that’s what it’s called), where you can come up for air and ask questions–for a price. Well, what? We have to buy groceries too, ok?
And don’t forget, even the original item is not enough–contrary to the initial promise. Because, if you have any sense at all, you’ll step-up and purchase the “discounted” Keywords 101 manual from the author, because it is “a must-have for anyone using Squidoo or other free web properties to create content on the web.” If it’s a must have, why market it separately? Anyhow, this takes your “investment” is now growng worrisome. By this time, needless to say, you’re not even dreaming that you’re going to get by for that little initial offer. More is definitely coming. And of course, it’s all good. Besides, stop complaining. This “one week” item is better than a lot of other stuff being sold. You know: the suitcase-full course with 10 DVD’s, 54 videos you can download, a forum for all your questions, etc., etc. plus the inevitable “contuinuity” program, where after 5 years of subscribing and receiving snippets of rehashed material (for heaven’s sake, how much can you say about this stuff), you will have discovered he ripped apart some PLR books. Furthermore, if this product enlightens you so as to save you from buying just one more worthless, over-priced, over-hyped product from one of the self-proclaimed “internet gurus,” then you’re already ahead of the game (it’s not your fault you haven’t succeeded–the gurus are hiding all the good info, which I am now about to tell you). Soooooo, if what you learn here saves weeks or months of trying to figure it out yourself, isn’t that worth it? Of course it is. And the sooner you get started, the sooner you’ll be on your way to the life of your dreams. And anyway, there’s my no quibble money-back guarantee. Sorry I can’t return the time and energy you will have spent wading through my product and my jv’s products , though. In this world, it’s caveat emptor, so get over it.
End of rant. I have massively unsubscribed. I don’t get more than ten IM emails a day now. It’s great.
Well ranted Sam. IM is out of control because it is utter shite. Marketers are desperate because the easy money to sell to the gullible newbies is grinding to a halt. Everybody is realizing it takes a lot of time and/or money to get anywhere in this biz with few exceptions.
True!
Making money online today is a lot harder than before. Competition today is very high that is why you need to do a lot of work if you really want to earn.
Patience…patience..patience is what you really need if you want to succeed in making money online. You also need to think of new ways that will make people coming back to your site and that’s hard work.