Everybody wants to start their internet business and make money online.
It sounds magical, having a website, and making money while even sleeping, right?
This is what all the internet marketing gurus tell us. They show us the pictures from a nice beach, having a beer while working on a laptop. They tell us how easy it is to make money online.
So called gurus are good at what they do, and they know how to create the dream job before selling it to us.
Since their job is to sell you the dream and make money out of it, they will never tell you a little secret about internet marketing.
Internet Marketing is BORING as Hell
Yes, you’ve heard it right. I’m telling you the truth; internet marketing is one of the most boring things you can do for living.
How come? Don’t I always tell you that I love internet marketing. I really enjoy what I do?
Yes, but let’s talk about reality for a minute.
Overall, probably 1% of internet marketing is fun, creative and enjoyable. It is the part when you need to use your right brain.
How about the rest 99%?
It’s data entry & so many repetitive tasks, all the left brain stuff you need to do to be able to succeed.
This is where most beginners fail.
Most beginners fail because they believe in the dreams sold by so called gurus, and their expectations are sky high.
They all want to work less, make more money, and do it fast…
If you are a beginner in internet marketing, forget about all the dreams sold by gurus.
Start fresh, and get ready to countless hours of work, mostly boring, data entry type work.
How About Automation & Scaling?
Unless you excel in doing all the tasks by yourself, you will never be able to automate & scale by hiring other people.
Automation and scaling is an art in itself, and most gurus make it sound like child’s play, in reality, it is not.
If you can make $10/day with what you do, it won’t be a piece of cake to do the same thing 1000 times, and make $10,000/day. Trust me on this.
You Have Killed My Dreams, What Am I Gonna Do Next?
If you are serious about making money online, start with setting your expectations low. Forget about all the hype you’ve thought by so called gurus.
Get ready to work hard, I mean really hard.
Learn every single task, and start creating a system by using your right brain. Always think about how you can automate the task you are working on.
Next time your neighborhood’s friendly guru tells you “it’s so much fun & easy to make money online”, you know the truth & you can tell him “yeah, right”.
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If it is not private information, I wonder about what is your daily maximum earning from affiliate marketing up till now, $ ???? / Day
Bullshit internet marketing is boring as hell.
You decide whether you make it boring. If you don’t like a task outsource it. If you want to be an effective internet marketer you outsource all the repetitive boring tasks. Just focus on right brain tasks.
I could not agree with you more. After watching the ‘sheeple’ get sheered and even recently getting ‘shorn’ myself by someone I thought I could trust (some people change when alot of money goes ‘bye-bye’). I have even started a tell all blog to expose all the ‘mis-information’ that I have run across and others, so we can get down to what works. It stinks that more people make money with ‘false hope’ then real substance, but the questioned begged? Would the public still buy if they knew the truth ? I hope so. Time will tell!
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Admittedly, Internet Marketing is a lot harder than I first expected – and its pretty tedious when you are not getting the sales you were hoping for. However, when the sales increase, it does get more interesting.
Good Post.
Not so boring as you say but yes if you cant do it manually you cant scale it.
I normally find that it becomes boring if my motivation is faltering.
But the majority of the time, I love what I do. The grass is always greener. It can be lonely putting in the long hours on your own, but you have to weigh it up to the alternative of grinding away in a day job til you’re 65. I know what I’d rather do.
Great post! I can’t wait to start making $10,000 a day! I agree with you on working very very hard.
Great post. I have to say that it probably doesn’t take much left brain work to get to $200-300 a day, but I agree with you in that if a marketer wants to go beyond that level of performance they’re certainly going to have to doing the “boring stuff.” To some, crunching numbers and optimizing every little detail on their campaigns might be boring or it may not be. A better strategy IMO, might be to not optimize to the “maximum point of optimization” – which is a surefire way of getting bored and burnt out- but to rather start new campaigns and optimize to the point where it’s reasonable.