SebastianG
Junior Member
- Jul 15, 2011
- 153
- 107
Allow me this rant because it comes hard on me. It comes hard to accept that a kid within my city is making $8.000 a month from locking cheat codes and other people's e-books within File Ice and then promoting them with bots on Facebook. That's just hard to accept. It's hard to see internet marketing as a long-term job, I can't imagine myself sitting at home, 45 years old, selling e-books with clickbank or selling them to my e-mail list. It's hard to cling on something so dependent, like a search engine or an ad network as your main source of income.
And even if you invest and diversify, there's still a certain limit to how much you make (a limit that is probably comfortable to most of you).
Not all of us are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, not all of us can reinvent, let alone invent something to make the billions. But as one of those people who've set themselves a similar goal, how do you think your way out of this cage that Internet Marketing seems to be? Yes, there are people who just want to bring bread on the table, who just want to survive, to make money and spend, to easily produce somewhat more than a little and consume it all. I am not talking about you guys.
In order to keep my sanity in this absurd sphere of IM, I've developed the following perspective:
Internet Marketing is a highly accessible source of brilliance, knowledge and experience for the young entrepreneur. It is not a lifestyle, it is not a definitive state but it's an incredibly powerful launching pad. Now I say that for the following reasons:
1. All you need is an internet connection. After that, you just join a community and start learning. It's free and accessible.
2.You learn how to manage money and how hard it is to actually make ends meet to get a profit, while having very little to lose (assuming you just reinvest the inside profits).
3.You Learn to think, Internet marketing is not for idiots (though you can be an idiot and make money with a method created by someone else, assuming you are lucky enough to be in a unsaturated niche) Internet Marketing makes you struggle, research, think to create something useful. Something profitable.
4.You learn to work. There's many techniques out there but there's also a lot of people that aren't making money for the single reason that they're not doing anything serious about it. If you learn how to motivate yourself and start working seriously on a project, then you've already been influenced in a great way.
5.You build up relationships with other entrepreneur-minded people, at some point you have to surround yourself by smart minds that are doing it instead of wishing it.
6.You get to make things happen instead of hoping for things to be happening to you.
These are just the passive benefits, now I'll list the ones that I believe to be very important.
=> You learn to invest. Money makes money, marketing makes money, advertising makes money. You get a habit with making your money work for you instead of gathering it all up for your consume. Many offline-business starters have this immense (in my opinion) handicap.
=> You learn efficient advertising. You make research, you target your market properly instead of splashing a bunch of ads on everyone hoping some of it would stick and convert. You highly maximize your efficiency. Many offline-business starters also have the handicap of NEVER really asking themselves about the people they're selling to. They simply don't understand their customer pool.
=> You gather capital. All the knowledge you get for free, by simply being willing to learn and progress as an entrepreneur is invaluable. But if you're like me, you have no support or any kind of funds. This aspect is quite a saver. You get hands-down no-debt capital to invest when time comes to create a physical product for a big market in need.
My conclusion is nothing more than an attempt to motivate you all on this basis: If you're not making money, remember you're here to learn, not to become rich overnight. Keep at it. All the time learning now for free means a lot of money saved later. Test. Work. Do mistakes while it's still cheap because mistakes are not that affordable in the big league.
(footer note: excuse me if this is in the wrong section, I was quite unsure where to post it)
And even if you invest and diversify, there's still a certain limit to how much you make (a limit that is probably comfortable to most of you).
Not all of us are Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, not all of us can reinvent, let alone invent something to make the billions. But as one of those people who've set themselves a similar goal, how do you think your way out of this cage that Internet Marketing seems to be? Yes, there are people who just want to bring bread on the table, who just want to survive, to make money and spend, to easily produce somewhat more than a little and consume it all. I am not talking about you guys.
In order to keep my sanity in this absurd sphere of IM, I've developed the following perspective:
Internet Marketing is a highly accessible source of brilliance, knowledge and experience for the young entrepreneur. It is not a lifestyle, it is not a definitive state but it's an incredibly powerful launching pad. Now I say that for the following reasons:
1. All you need is an internet connection. After that, you just join a community and start learning. It's free and accessible.
2.You learn how to manage money and how hard it is to actually make ends meet to get a profit, while having very little to lose (assuming you just reinvest the inside profits).
3.You Learn to think, Internet marketing is not for idiots (though you can be an idiot and make money with a method created by someone else, assuming you are lucky enough to be in a unsaturated niche) Internet Marketing makes you struggle, research, think to create something useful. Something profitable.
4.You learn to work. There's many techniques out there but there's also a lot of people that aren't making money for the single reason that they're not doing anything serious about it. If you learn how to motivate yourself and start working seriously on a project, then you've already been influenced in a great way.
5.You build up relationships with other entrepreneur-minded people, at some point you have to surround yourself by smart minds that are doing it instead of wishing it.
6.You get to make things happen instead of hoping for things to be happening to you.
These are just the passive benefits, now I'll list the ones that I believe to be very important.
=> You learn to invest. Money makes money, marketing makes money, advertising makes money. You get a habit with making your money work for you instead of gathering it all up for your consume. Many offline-business starters have this immense (in my opinion) handicap.
=> You learn efficient advertising. You make research, you target your market properly instead of splashing a bunch of ads on everyone hoping some of it would stick and convert. You highly maximize your efficiency. Many offline-business starters also have the handicap of NEVER really asking themselves about the people they're selling to. They simply don't understand their customer pool.
=> You gather capital. All the knowledge you get for free, by simply being willing to learn and progress as an entrepreneur is invaluable. But if you're like me, you have no support or any kind of funds. This aspect is quite a saver. You get hands-down no-debt capital to invest when time comes to create a physical product for a big market in need.
My conclusion is nothing more than an attempt to motivate you all on this basis: If you're not making money, remember you're here to learn, not to become rich overnight. Keep at it. All the time learning now for free means a lot of money saved later. Test. Work. Do mistakes while it's still cheap because mistakes are not that affordable in the big league.
(footer note: excuse me if this is in the wrong section, I was quite unsure where to post it)
