The Golden Age of Internet Marketing is Over! (What's next..?)

Everybody has different opinions:

• YouTube gurus are banking millions easy and they will do for years to come.
• You can`t build a Saas with a drag and drop builder, maybe a funny one only.
• After this pandemic, the golden age is about to start, most of the businesses who refuse to go online just because they were old school, now diving on.
• Internet users are always growing so the potential is growing day by day.
• Internet users are just more mature than 10 years ago, they are more.
• You can't relly on Google all the time, on play on their field, is normal to dance by their rules.
• Always will be new markets as Cannabis for example.

I agree with: Solve problems, but that's a half part of a business, the hardest is marketing and will always be, you can have the best product, if nobody knows, nobody cares.
Hit and run methods are just slow, not dead.

"A shit is a shit, it doesn`t meter however you pack it!"

The golden age of the internet will be dead when AI will take over most of the things, until then, happy banking!

splishsplash said:

The biggest problem with this type of thinking is that you'll have that $700/mo forever. There's almost nothing that's going to generate you $1k/mo for the next 60-80 years of your life unless you have high 6 figures invested, and even that isn't guaranteed forever.

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Nothings guaranteed forever. Thats not a thinking , thats an observation. A big difference.

I believe there are still methods out there, methods that hasn't been tapped, you just have to find them and utilize them, it won't be easy though, make money online still lives, alot of people still earning thousand of dollars here on this forum

Bookmarked, Thank you.

Meddie said:

• You can`t build a Saas with a drag and drop builder.

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The purpose of the drag and drop builders is to prototype your SaaS. Dropping $500k into building your product only to find you've focused on the wrong things is bad.

If you have money to invest, you still want to prototype. There are more technical alternatives to bubble.

bubble is good for a non-tech founder to 1) prototype and 2) get some revenue in. You can build a small SaaS and get it up to $10k-20k/mo with a builder.

It's generally good for idea testing too. It's just not suitable for scale.

Meddie said:

• YouTube gurus are banking millions easy and they will do for years to come.
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• Internet users are just more mature than 10 years ago, they are more.

I agree with: Solve problems, but that's a half part of a business, the hardest is marketing and will always be, you can have the best product, if nobody knows, nobody cares.
Hit and run methods are just slow, not dead.

"A shit is a shit, it doesn`t meter however you pack it!"

The golden age of the internet will be dead when AI will take over most of the things, until then, happy banking!

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Some youtube gurus are making millions. Most aren't. But I think you'll be surprised. Tighter regulations will start to come into play that will make it harder for some of the dirtier ones.

But they're making millions because people just want the easy way out, as can be seen on this thread. No one wants to be told that you have to build a great company with a great product to really make it big. And yes, some people make it big with crap, but for all the ones who manage that, there are 10's of millions of others who tried and failed. I personally like to wake up in the morning and feel like what I'm doing is adding some value to the world.

AI isn't going to takeover. It's going to create more opportunities than have ever existed in the history of the human race.

splishsplash said:

No one's making $100+ per day easily. Look in the journey section here. Look in the other forum sections. Most people are not even making $100/day, and $100/day is pretty terrible. The minimum wage in the UK is $90/day for working 8 hours with a lunch break. I've been around a long time and trust *me* most people don't have anything on autopilot. Autopilot is a big myth. Go on holiday for 3 months and if you can make $100/day every day for those 3 months, then congratulations, you've got a passive business, but the only companies that have that are real companies with staff. People have been talking about autopilot methods for a long time. It's just clickbait. Even bots require you to be constantly working and tweaking things. As someone who's made money in more ways than most of you have even heard of, I know straight away when someone talks about "autopilot" they're new to the game and clinging to a dream.

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Nice post. I enjoyed reading this.

Without a doubt, it is way more difficult nowadays and definitely requires way more work and investment than in the Golden Years to be able to generate those types of numbers

100% right.

Fuck chasing money.

PROVIDE VALUE.

Provide something unique that others aren't offering.

Solve a problem someone isn't already solving.

Improve a product or service by a factor of 5 or 10 and you'll have a chance at making money.

Do NOT be another "blog" another "SEO provider" another "keyword researcher" another "article writer" another "freelancer".

Find ways to ADD value in the market place.

Find ways to make yourself UNIQUE and so valuable that you don't seek out customers i.e no FB ads or Google ads. They seek YOU out because their friends recommended you to them. EARN business, don't promote your business.

I think the next big thing will be Internet Of Things and Crypto / digital currency. That shit will go mainstream - when it does, you'll see the next Google/Amazon/Facebook in those niches.

Not to say that you should drop everything and focus on those 2 niches. Just sharing my two cents.

Most of you should focus on doing something that is already being done - but do it much better and niche down.

Instead of being another SEO service provider.... be the "SEO Expert" that all Law Firms go to, because you specialize in that niche sector and do it better than everyone else. Do that and you won't need to compete on price, you'll be able to charge a premium.

yherrliche said:

It's over for you, because you're using your techniques and knowledge from 10 years ago and expect them to work now. While all the old-timers get stuck, and all the people reading the strategies of the old times get stuck, the young blood will make all the money

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If the old timers did not make a bundle back in the day to pay the youngsters to make them money now they are failing because they always failed.

That has always been the way of business.

If your 60 and having to load up your twit-twat-tok bot or whatever each day to make $100 you seriously fucked up in business when you were younger.

GringoMonkey said:

If your 60 and having to load up your twit-twat-tok bot or whatever each day to make $100 you seriously fucked up in business when you were younger.

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Hahahaha. This is sheer brilliance. I take my hat off to you.

AestheticHustler said:

Interesting argument.

It's hard to prove such statement as "hard" is subjectively. One might struggle in a niche, whereas someone else might completely slay. Moreover, such declaration is extremely vague - in which "niches" has it gotten harder? What has it changed / made it harder? etc.
In my opinion, the difficulty has grown alongside the potential. We've all been evolving hand in hand with the Internet. It's a mouse and cat game. Surely, it has gotten harder, but so have we.

However, I agree with your mentality of criticizing the "Back then it was easier" as this attitude will get you nowhere.



You want to imply that there are people who make $100/day with the same methods and the same effort like ten years ago?

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That's the point, new methods are required and I still believe they exist
People just don't like sharing their methods anymore, I would do thesame thing
When you share a method with others, trust me, it becomes useless in a matter of months, maybe years, that's when you see people post in forums like this saying IM is dead, people like OP, IM is never dead, it's just the method you use that is dead

splishsplash said:

The purpose of the drag and drop builders is to prototype your SaaS. Dropping $500k into building your product only to find you've focused on the wrong things is bad.

If you have money to invest, you still want to prototype. There are more technical alternatives to bubble.

bubble is good for a non-tech founder to 1) prototype and 2) get some revenue in. You can build a small SaaS and get it up to $10k-20k/mo with a builder.

It's generally good for idea testing too. It's just not suitable for scale.




Some youtube gurus are making millions. Most aren't. But I think you'll be surprised. Tighter regulations will start to come into play that will make it harder for some of the dirtier ones.

But they're making millions because people just want the easy way out, as can be seen on this thread. No one wants to be told that you have to build a great company with a great product to really make it big. And yes, some people make it big with crap, but for all the ones who manage that, there are 10's of millions of others who tried and failed. I personally like to wake up in the morning and feel like what I'm doing is adding some value to the world.

AI isn't going to takeover. It's going to create more opportunities than have ever existed in the history of the human race.

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I appreciate your post. You here sound like someone shouting to the top of his voice trying to wake people up and come to terms with reality while most people just here are behaving as you are just a drunk fool, which you aren't. Coz they cant see what you can.

I still remember jack ma's quote of the coming times,
Jack Ma: "The next 30 years is going to be painful"

Thanks for advice. From now on, focus of my agency is to "Dig small but dig deep"

I get what you are saying Tom.

Let's be honest here guys, to make millions and billions you need a high high quality product. This is obvious.

Just look at the wealthiest people in the world. They have outstanding businesses that offer a top class service or product.

People will only part with there money if it really suits them. The product must be outstanding to touch millions of peoples lives.

People in masses won't just hand there money over to you for an ordinary product.

The thing is that most people are happy making $100s per day which doesn't require something special.

If you want insane wealth then you best be prepared to to go above and beyond.

Making easy money online is getting harder too i think that is obvious.

With the G updates and YouTube censoring more and more its without doubt getting harder.

We all have to up our game a little now.

cozziola said:

Let's be honest here guys, to make millions and billions you need a high high quality product. This is obvious.

Just look at the wealthiest people in the world. They have outstanding businesses that offer a top class service or product.

People will only part with there money if it really suits them. The product must be outstanding to touch millions of peoples lives.

People in masses won't just hand there money over to you for an ordinary product.

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Thats not actually true. Value and desire also come into play.

The vast majority of businesses that make the most money do not make "high high quality products". For example mcdonalds. They appeal to the masses. I would rather drive a rolls royce, but own toyota.

GringoMonkey said:

Thats not actually true. Value and desire also come into play.

The vast majority of businesses that make the most money do not make "high high quality products". For example mcdonalds. They appeal to the masses. I would rather drive a rolls royce, but own toyota.

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McDonald's don't provide a high quality product but they do provide a high quality service.

Its fast, very consistent and it is the most amazing franchise.

cozziola said:

McDonald's don't provide a high quality product but they do provide a high quality service.

Its fast, very consistent and it is the most amazing franchise.

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Due to the tipping culture of the usa you need great customer service to survive. But actually thats not true in the rest of the world. Go to mcdonalds in the uk, asia or in fact most places, believe it or not i even had a mcdonalds in monte carlo and the service is not that fast or fantastic!

My point is you dont need a great product as you said, you just have to be a bit better than your competitor in a mass market and be good at telling people about it to get rich. Which is actually what big business does.

splishsplash said:

Hahahaha. This is sheer brilliance. I take my hat off to you.

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That's right there is my concern. I don't want tell my kids I bot tiktok with adult offers for a living

splishsplash said:

I think people have perhaps misunderstood here..

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I did not mean "you" as in you. I was talking more as a generality. Didn't mean it for yourself.

I try to make money online since 2014, when I was a teenager. This is a bitter pill. Yet you summarized what an economies degree teaches you.

This thread is exactly what i needed. A couple hours ago i was looking up books/guides onto how to create an SaaS and fast forward to now... i found this!

Thank you