Of those 200k members some are bots, some are users with multiple accounts.
Of those 2mil posts many are redundant.
Leaving that aside since it is not important anyway, why does it matter for you? Do those come at you and tie you to the chair so you can't make money? Make money online is a big niche and a great niche because most people who are trying to make money online don't know shit and they are chasing the push button solution that is easy, fast and will make them shitloads of money. So they keep chasing it instead of working, hence if you sell them shit they will buy it no matter how bad it is. I wanted to make an advanced SEO course. I wanted also to make an advanced SEO software. Stuff you never heard above, stuff that is so common that people don't do it because they think ti doesn't works, but it works if you handle details in a certain way. Then I realized that's not where money is. Money is in the noob, ignorant, unknowledgeable group of people.
There will always be noobs and newbies and there will always be people who will sell to them. Again, how exactly does that matter? Since most people are newbies (or even worse, noobs) you don't really compete against 200k people. You compete against maybe a few hundred who know what they're doing. That asuming you know what you're doing yourself and are not just another newbie or noob.
Most of those 200k plus a lot of others who are not on BHW like to call themselves internet marketers, however most of them don't know a rat's ass about marketing, they don't know much about online stuff either except using the internet. They don't know how to code, they don't know how to properly analyze stuff deeper. So we got ourselves a bunch of folks who don't know marketing and who don't have actual skills in internet/computers. IM/SEO/SEM/etc. is not a skill. Coding in C++ is a skill, web development is a skill, database design is a skill, system administration is a skill, selling is a skill, creating ads is a skill, copywriting is a skill (real copywriting not $1/100 words articles). IM/SEO/SEM/etc. is just as marketing, advertising, etc. a domain, a means to an end. To be good at them you need skills. Most people don't have that. They don't actually learn, they just go on forums and ask other people just as unknowlegeable as they are for advice. And they believe their advice. I'm not saying a forum ro any other type of community has no use, I am saying it is not a good way to learn something. Most people read hundreds of posts every month but they don't even read a real marketing book in a whole year. They spend $50 on a WSO or $300 on a course or maybe $2k if it as a well put togheter course that had great marketing. They skim through it maybe implement something, maybe they don't. Doesn't matter 99.999% of the courses on IM out there are shit. You're sometimes worse by doing what you learn in them than just taking a guess. Then there are those who actually buy a $20 book about marketing, advertising, sales, psychology, programming, whatever and read it. They have no clue how to turn that knowledge into money yet but after a few of those books they'll run circles around you in terms of money production because they actually understand what they do not just follow a pack of blind sheep.
Anyay... just my 2c
