The Next Best Thing” Won’t Solve Your Internet Marketing Woes
Posted by: SuccessvilleNews.com in Marketing, tags: MarketingAs you work on your Internet marketing business, you eventually have to make the decision to QUIT BUYING EVERY NEXT BEST THING. You will always be trying to find ways to improve your bottom line, but buying everything that promises to do it for you does not work. This will empty your wallet, but it won’t solve your problem of not making money on the Internet.
There are two big reasons why 96% of new Internet businesses don’t make a dime. The first reason is that the people don’t actually work at building the business. If you want to, you can easily be convinced that you can start a business for less than $10, go to bed, and wake up making $10k a month. After all, Billy Bob did it, didn’t he? If you start searching for biz opps, the promises of fast, easy, riches compete for your computer screen. I have no real solution for those who think it really works this way. Eventually time and money will teach you that it doesn’t. Until you learn that lesson, you will certainly fail.
The second reason why Internet businesses fail, is that people get onto the slippery slope of trying to find the magic bullet, the single thing that will instantly make everything work and start the money rolling in. This action, however, takes your efforts off building your business, and puts them toward something which produces no money. In an experiment to see where this could go, I played a hypothetical game called “TheGreatOpportunity.” Determined to make it work, I “joined.” This opportunity promised “22 streams of income,” with zero cost start up. Sounds good, right?
Wait a minute. The 22 streams of income are affiliate programs of one kind or another. You make money with each of them by referring others into the company. Each one was actually a business of its own, requiring its own kinds of efforts. However, in order to make any money with any of them, I would have to pay something. Not a single one offered to pay me if I personally didn’t bring in some cash. I could have spent around $350 to $400 just getting myself signed up to make some money. So much for free.
I then went to another opportunity, where all I had to do was sign up, get my own genuine replicated website, and then all I would have to do is get some people to visit it. Piece of cake. Just get people to visit my site. How do I do that?
So, that left me where so many new Internet marketers find themselves. Free doesn’t mean free, and finding visitors isn’t as easy as it sounds. Maybe I just need some tools– software, autoresponders, ebooks, anything. Just help me get some visitors to my site. It seems hundreds of people have “The Secret They Don’t Want You To Know,” or “The Shocking Truth About Something.” In thirty minutes, I read most of eight sales pages, each promising me the moon for the Incredible Price That Won’t Last Long. I could have spent $790 to have all my problems solved. I already had purchased one of the products a year or so ago, and I went to it to check out the numbers. I had paid $176 for it, and inside the materials, there were “recommendations” for at least four other programs I should get to make it all work as it was designed to work.
Do you see what’s happening? Has this happened to you? You start a business with great intentions, but when the money doesn’t start coming in within a day or so, you start spending your money on another tool, which is also another business. Pretty soon, you are spending all of your time in non productive activities. If you had spent as much time working your business as you had looking for ways to build it, you would be much farther ahead. Here’s my advice: once you decide on a program or plan, stick to it. Don’t get distracted by anything else. Spend your time and money trying to build that one business. Working on a single product or a single business will produce more results than “The Next Great Thing.
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