I know this post will raise some eyebrows and I may receive some knocks for this, but what I really care about know is the truth and helping fellow internet marketers who has been struggling online from time to time only to be fleeced by the so called gurus who main duty is to hype sell and sell and recycle the same methods with different names.
At first all I did was to listen and follow the gurus. I bought a lot of materials and tried all I could but no way. I did all I was told. But I found out some of the gurus advice though ok was too advanced for a beginner like me. The gurus love to complicate simple process; they give simplicity another name by using vocabularies just to advertise their expertise in their field. This I don’t argue is good, but my friend I am not making money online.
Who is this post targeted at?
First of all, if you've struggled with getting your online business up and running and things are getting tough by the day and “information overload” please take this post and the advice I will be sharing with you at heart you have just started online and you don’t want to waste too much time drifting to nothingness, I have observed that the gurus sell us the wrong roadmaps so that we can continue to feed them fat from our ignorance and frustration, so we always come back to them for the latest fad. Whereas all along nothing new is happening just another form of the basic principles.
As the day and night remains winter and summer will never cease, the sun will always rise from the east, nothing new.
I learnt that the gurus are regular people who have learned the basics and perfected them. But instead of advising you to follow the basics they compounded it. The gurus make you believe you can make six figure dollars in a year! Worse still in a month! Then you are fire up and get the e-book, software and CDs, after trying for some time you realise it’s a dream. Yes a long term dream, what the guru didn’t say is that there is a process and the process takes time.
Forget making six figures in a month even in a year if you want to be successful online. Aim at the stars but forget hitting it in your first effort. What makes you a millionaire is not the million dollars you have in your account, but the person you become while making the millions. If you pass through a process to your millions you can replicate that process at any time. And that is the idea.
It's not the first $100,000 - it's the first $1. It's not a 10,000 mail list. It's a list that grows one PERSON at a time, day in and day out. It is a process that works, it produces result, and it’s been tested over time.
The big problem I have with the gurus is that their solutions for making money online can only be use by fellow gurus like them; this completely makes sense as they are now living the guru lives. They have the list, they have the money for testing, resources to outsource and can even have JVs before lunches and get most of these e-books for free to try it first and endorse, they are easily accepted into Cpa networks unlike the regular guy, who is 99% trying to make a dime online.
As the economy condition of the world is facing great challenges many are having a second look at the online business.
Don’t get me wrong the gurus have and will always help to advance the frontiers of internet marketing. What I am advocating in this post is that as a newbie or a struggler what you need is not the so called advance tactics but the first success practical steps not following the guru’s ways of marketing, looking at the basics and following after them.
Instead of copying the gurus, there are basic system that are incremental and don’t change, they are not sexy and flashy as the gurus portray but they work every day.
These are systems that work for REGULAR people. People who want to make money online, but don't want to spend years and years trying to become a guru.
You don't need to work harder. You need to work SMARTER.
Create a SIMPLE system. Then build on it slowly. There's no such thing as "get rich quick". But with the internet, there IS such a thing as "get rich relatively quick..."
Just focus on starting with 1 subscriber and building it a bit each day. And it
will amaze you how quickly your income will grow once you go back to the basics and keep things SIMPLE.
Albert Einstein the greatest scientist of the 20th century defined Insanity as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.
The bottom-line is: how bad do you want to change your life? Are you willing to try something different, even if it's not sexy and doesn't promise overnight riches?
I think the writing is on the wall. If you're like most people I've spoken to, you've probably been trying to build an online business for many months (and in some cases, years) with almost NOTHING to show for your efforts...
But all that can change right now! Just follow the basics!
So that brings me to the question in your mind, what are the basics?
Good question.
Here they are:
1. Squeeze Page – A must have. Build the list.
2. Free Gift – Give value to your list and others
3. Build relationship – bond with your list and be involve with them
4. Thank You Page-Appreciate them and create more value for them using OTO especially $1- $5 bills
5. Free Traffic Generation- get traffic easily and learn how to convert them to sales.
6. Taking action- Daily take action on your business is the trick.
7. Mentorship- Go for mentorship with someone who is really got time for you.
That is it? Yes.
Simple but deadly effective. This is all the gurus are selling with different languages, tools and brand names.
I advise you don’t spend any dime online any more for e-books (especially a newer version of a product) except you start seeing results. Only invest in mentorship, your tools for business enhancement and be expectant always. Stop your ears from the noise out there and concentrate on your work-building your online business and in months to come you could easily say like the great musician R. Kelly ‘the storm is over now….’
Follow it and you won’t be wrong.
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