Biggest Mistake in your IM Career

[m6ceb]

mine is not having a brain lol this IM baffles me i keep trying though

 

[maddomain]

Investing 2000$ in few PPC websites back in 08 , got only 700$ back ... , quited IM and now im back again to try something new , stil looking for my method but there are a lot here and im lost browsing about 12 hoers a day looking for something that fits me the moust but looking that is high profitable

 

[innosoft]

1. PTC Sites
2. Going after Adsense
3. Wrong Keyword Selection based on just broad matches!

 

[-Revolution-]

Put too much credits on my enhance views ..after the credits were finished I realized my video had been removed ages ago.
Lol !
Feel so sorry for you guys.

 

[unknown00]

my biggest mistake was sending traffic to adult friend finder instead of a cpa dating offers.. in the end i was suppose to get like 6k from adult friend finder but it was reduced to $900 after they converted me... all those damn signups of both males and females was wasted..... i could have made soo much money.... damn!!!!!!!

 

[Smart SEO]

Not creating a plan. even worse not sticking to the plan!

 

[45415]

Too much planning without actually taking any action!

 

[Narrator]

I always regret selling websites. I had two sites that I sold for quick cash (I was a poor college student) go viral shortly after selling them.

 

[scrapefox]

My biggest mistake seems to run through a lot of the posts here: the lack of proper planning.

 

[blackfairy]

Oh dear where to start? I made a lof mistakes

1. I sold some valuable domains for peanuts. I should have done more research before selling them. But I was new to this business and someone offered me $800 for all 3. And I thought $800 is a lot of money when you only paid something like $10 per domain.
2. Creating sites about something, without doing a keyword research first. I wasted a horrible amount of time with these sites, which had a PPC of 0.01
3. Lazyness. When I finally reached a $4500 income per month, I got lazy as hell. Which of course caused the income to decline. I took it for granted, big mistake

 

[JohnnySalami]

Hey all thanks for sharing the stories.
I also regret getting burnt out and quitting. This resulted in the loss of several strong domains and income. Now I'm starting over.

I have noticed a few repeats and am wondering if someone can clarify these two:

Q: What is the issue here? Was he passing cheaply to the affiliate instead of gathering and reselling the contact info to multiple sources?

CPA - example: my biggest mistake was sending traffic to adult friend finder instead of a cpa dating offers.

Q: What's wrong with Adsense? Selling traffic cheap instead of affiliate or?

Adsense - Going after Adsense

Thanks in advance!

 

[XoRaK]

Reading threads on DP, lost a lot of valuable time...

Greetz

XoRaK

 

[procam]

Partnering with a dick head from Vietnam. Witch cost me $500 a day. But I DDOS his sites until his host started denying him service. Made me feel a little better but still if I ever see him I will off that bitch.

 

[Bradm]

The time I spent when I was new, reading EVERY SINGLE e-mail in my inbox, and joining everything out there! It was a lot of wasted time.

 

[matt broody]

not starting to use aweber earlier

 

[Achiever]

Nice Thread

Saves you alot of time and gives you a great preview of different mistakes that you can prevent.

my biggest mistake was just the same as everyones here.

in summary: not taking proper action.

 

[rodnice1]

Buying a bunch of domains to park and thinking traffic would automatically come and I would make $$$. Domain parking sucks IMO!

 

[innosoft]

Hey all thanks for sharing the stories.
I also regret getting burnt out and quitting. This resulted in the loss of several strong domains and income. Now I'm starting over.

I have noticed a few repeats and am wondering if someone can clarify these two:

Q: What is the issue here? Was he passing cheaply to the affiliate instead of gathering and reselling the contact info to multiple sources?


Q: What's wrong with Adsense? Selling traffic cheap instead of affiliate or?


Thanks in advance!

on m part with adsense, google hates few peoples to the core! from past 2 years when ever i create account with new websites or aged one (my own which is not used to adsense..) they all get banned within a week. Reason is unknown!!!

 

[demongerbil]

Lack of focus. Not finishing projects before moving on to others.

 

[Virus1]

A mistake I made was not to start building a list sooner.
I went for the quick money....
and when I tried building a list, it actually brought down my conversions...
so I removed the email grabbing part....

but I now realize, they would have been less conversions but the blasting the list would of made up for it.

So....now I am list building.