One of the topics I caught on talk radio recently was how the FDA announced that most diet pills are bad for us. The kicker was that even pills marked as all natural are bad for the people taking them. I am thinking to myself, “no crap.” Just because something is natural doesn’t mean it’s good for you.
Internet marketing is a lot like diet pills
Internet marketing is not easy. I won’t claim that it is. It is real work. Sometimes at the end of the day having worked 14+ hours, I question why I even bother. But when you accomplish something cool and profitable, it is completely worth it. Like dieting, there is no shortcut.
Let me repeat myself, there is NO shortcut. You can’t take some magic pill that will make you money overnight online. If that were the case, everyone would do it. It takes long hours, a lack of sleep and eating potatoes for months to save on groceries. The reason so many people out there are “pretending” to give you good advice is because they are selling you diet pills. Then when you realize those pills don’t work, they have another one lined up for you to try that “really works this time.” Quit kidding yourself.
95% of the “A-List” bloggers are selling you crap. I fell for it just like most everyone else I know. I was only smart enough to get out of the Internet marketing rat race when I saw a good thing. People like Vic and Grizz taught me how to think like a real Internet marketer and how to profit from it. They will teach you more about Internet marketing than all of the A-listers combined. They can teach you about SEO and how to make money online. If you want proof, just Google “make money online” 3 of the top 10 spots belong to these two guys.
There is a lot of money to be made online. But the pie is shrinking unless you teach yourself some valuable skills. Skills that are not of value include spending 1,000 hours building a list of subscribers who don’t buy what you are selling. That is why it takes the A-listers tens of thousands of subscribers to make money. Do you ever notice that advertisers on their sites don’t buy repeating ads? The reason is because their subscribers don’t buy anything from those advertisers. It’s a big con game. People think if they can get an ad on those bloggers’ sites, some of their money and luck will rub off on them. Nine times out of 10, the advertisers lose and the blogger wins, and you’re the sucker if you bought anything. Trust me I know.
Quit buying diet pills
It’s time to start exercising. If you want to make money online you need to learn a set of skills that will help you to do that. Pick your poison as far as what you want to do. I chose SEO because there is not a lot of competition here in Fargo and it is a lot of fun ranking websites for new keywords. I hope what you choose is something that you really love because when times get tough and you aren’t making any money, you better love it in order to stick through it. Internet marketing is a race. You don’t win races by taking pills. You have to train, sweat, eat right and have commitment.
The #1 thing any of you can do is stop kidding yourself and decide to start working hard towards your goal. It’s either that or go about doing what you’re doing and continue to watch results slip away. I made a choice to quit my job and make a living online doing something I was passionate about. I am extremely thankful I found people willing to share what they know with me freely allowing me to accomplish my dream. I would like to make the same commitment to you as well. I will gladly and willfully tell you all I know, what I’ve learned and continue to learn. All you have to do is ask.
I have to warn you that I am only a willing vessel. You can take what you want and leave the rest. I just promise not to sell you Internet marketing diet pills. I am sure I will have more to come on this subject. I dare ask if you have any Internet marketing horror stories, but if you do and would like to share them feel free to do so. Just remember, you can lose weight for free just like you can make money online for free, it just takes hard work and time. I am always available for discussion via my contact page.
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Yup, there's no sense in buying diet pills when you can ose weight for free
But, we live in an instant gratification society, so lots of people will always make a lot of money off of those who want results immediately. (even if they don't work)
Josh, all advertising involves risk. I've dropped thousands of rands on advertising in newspapers and some newspapers have worked and others have been a dead loss for me.
I've discovered that online advertising is more efficacious than print advertising.
You're right that it does take tens of thousands of subscribers to make money. If you've only got a couple of thousand email addresses, your mailing list will not work for either yourself or your advertisers.
In the today business development and advertisement have been changed and resource and means are changed too.
Talking about the print media will not help in the online business growing and has become the old.
internet is really more capable to give more business and result for you and your organization.
Hi Josh,
I like your analogy. My problem over the past few years has actually been jumping from different "diet" to different "diet" in my internet marketing adventure. Hindsight being 20/20, I often wonder what some of my site's "weight" might be right now if I'd just picked one or two ideas and stuck with them for a decent period of time.
I guess I should take your advice … seeing as how I already have a whole "cabinet" full of "diet pills", I suppose it wouldn't hurt to take a break from buying any new ones, and just try to get the most use out of what I already have.
Todd
There can be possible comparison between that internet marketing is just like diet pills but this is not completely agreeable notions.
If your site is properly optimized by the giant search engines like google, yohoo and msn with both organic and paid listings.
Internet marketing can be said similar diet pills despite alot of differences.
for developing the internet marketing first you need to get optimized you site by seo by both paid listing and organic search engines in all major search engines.
the first tier search engines are brand building, internet ground making and for popularity for any site.
Josh, thanks for the analogy. You really do have to treat internet marketing like a regular business: you have to have a solid plan, and be willing to spend time, money, and effort for at least 3-5 years before seeing results. If the results come more quickly, all the better. But that is how I have come to see it.
I feel myself happy with my SEO stuff, because it helps me to earn online as well as my clients.