How to Succeed at Internet Marketing: The Learning Curve!
“If it sounds too good to be true…”
Spend any amount of time looking for ways to make money on the Internet, and you will come across many people happy to help you out – out of your money, that is!
Maybe you weren’t even actively looking for an online business opportunity…but a savvy Internet marketing guru with a clever email subject line popped into your inbox!
So, you decided, “What the heck, I’ll check it out!”
Usually it begins with a promise. Yes, in just a few short hours per week you are going to make loads of money, millions even! And they have already done most of the work for you!
While they worked on rebuilding, and selling, the Brooklyn Bridge!
Easy, right?
Plugin and play! Set it and forget it!
Just like those chicken roasters they sell on TV infomercials! [Now, just off to the side let’s have an idiot card telling everyone to say “Ooooh-aaaah!” and then clap!]
Yup! They know precisely what buttons to push and when; and, it’s all scripted to one end, to gain access to your wallet.
They are very good at it, too!
Hopefully, somewhere in the back of your mind, you hear your parent’s or grandparent’s voice echoing off in the distance:
“If it sounds too good to be true…it probably is.”
Folks, I don’t mean to sound cynical, mocking or facetious here. Well, maybe a little!?
The fact of the matter is…there are no “get rich quick” formulas in Internet marketing!
The whole notion of getting rich in a matter of days, weeks, or even months in Internet marketing is one of the late great snake oil sales campaigns!
BTW, I also have swamp land on the North Face of the South Slope of the Grand Canyon…and you too can own this beach front property just a few paces from the Caribbean…or was it the Pacific! Yeah, that’s the ticket! Next to the British Army gun emplacements next to the Belize National Airport!
Sure, there are instances in which a person has accomplished a great deal and done quite well in a matter of a few months. That individual usually has a history in sales, marketing, management, and/or entrepreneurial endeavors…but it certainly did not happen overnight!
In fact, most overnight success, and Hollywood and the music industries are great for building up this mythology, takes years. Years to gain overnight stardom, overnight riches, overnight success.
Years!
I have been a student of marketing for over 30 years. A student! I have built businesses and worked in sales, marketing, and management for some amazing companies, including my own, and for some amazingly successful entrepreneurs.
I have been blessed to see some of the best sales, marketing (in Internet marketing and also traditional brick and mortar marketers), self-improvement, and personal development gurus in the world speak, in person.
While we hear of the tremendous financial success many of these “gurus” have now, each and every one of them went through a learning curve…and it was hard work.
Eben Pagan of Altitude speaks of living in a tiny trailer, writing his first ebook in his “next-to-nothings.” Close your eyes you can see him sitting in front of his computer monitor in his skivvies writing all night.
Eben picturing what he was going to become.
Frank Kern of Mass Control 2.0 speaks of going to door to door in a black suit, in the middle of a Macon, Georgia summer, selling credit card vending machines…and that’s after burying a dog collar containment business he ran out of the back of a used car office!
Yet, Frank had this belief he could be something more, he knew it!
Tellman Knudson of The List Building Club, a man currently running across the country barefoot for homeless children, had already overcome significant medical issues as a child, tried a few other business ventures, including hypnosis, and failed. Tellman found himself at the end of his rope without enough money to buy lunch one day. Humiliated, he wrote an IOU to the diner for the cost of his lunch while the eyes of the people he saw every day were upon him. The dreaded double beep, he called it…rejection and humiliation!
In spite of the terrible humiliation…or because of it…he made it! Tellman envisioned something better, something great!
Jeff Herring, The Article Guy, was once homeless on Christmas Eve. Living in a hotel lobby, Jeff had nowhere to go and, seemingly, nowhere to turn.
Even while homeless, Jeff had a belief he could and would be something more, something greater!
Mike Geary, of The Truth About Abs, was “not in a good place financially,” working a regular 9-5 job as a scientist in the environmental field, trained people every evening and then went home to work on the computer until 4 in the morning…day after day, month after month, for several years before he made it…”overnight!”
True to his nature as an athlete, and as a scientist, Mike Geary knew he could achieve something great, he had the formula, it just took a concerted effort and belief!
Tony Robbins was a 20 year old kid with a beat up car, some stories have him living in it for a time, barely a penny to his name, going from appointment to appointment, speaking to business people with more experience and more money.
Yet instead of saying I can’t, it’s too hard or I don’t have the experience, Tony Robbins made it work!
I can go on…but you get the idea…I hope!
Every one of the above mentioned individuals had one quality. Every one of them believed above all else in their ability and that all things are indeed possible to those who believe!
“Whatever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve!” Napoleon Hill
The greatest service I can do for you is dispel the myth of overnight riches! The 4-Hour Workweek is probably the most misunderstood and misinterpreted work of the past few decades. Misunderstood, because the title has morphed into the entire message! The 80/20 Principle has also caused the same sort of issues, being widely misquoted and misunderstood!
Significantly, both of these books are one writer’s OPINION!
Interestingly, people often read a work and, because it is in print, has been published, and has achieved a certain amount of notoriety, it is considered fact. It has always amazed me how the written word can on one hand be relegated to the back burner by an entire generation, the video generation, and yet still hold immense power and authority.
Truly a paradox…a conundrum!
To have true and lasting success as an internet marketer, you have to become a student of the craft. To succeed online you must become comfortable with the sales process, marketing (both offline and Internet marketing), and with business building. After all, that’s what we are doing…right? We are building a business as entrepreneurs…as Internet marketing entrepreneurs.
Who do you believe and believe in? Are there reputable programs available for someone interested in making money online?
Yes, there are reputable programs out there, a few by the individuals noted above. Interestingly, the better programs available aren’t going to do all the work for you. And, the best Internet marketing programs aren’t going to do much of anything at all for you!
Why?
Well, there’s something to be said and much to be gained by taking the time to do it yourself! If you are serious about making money online, whether in the Internet marketing niche itself or in any one of the myriad of other niche marketing possibilities available to you, willing to take all the necessary steps, and don’t try to take shortcuts around the learning curve…you will prosper!
Take time to learn the real behind the scenes stories of how some of the successful internet marketers got to where they are today. They will inspire you!
Then, once you understand some of what it takes, it is time for implementation!
We will cover implementation in the next article! It is in combining education and implemetation that will lead you to prosperity in Internet marketing!
John
Professor John P. J. Zajaros, Sr.
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