Every week thousands of people from all over the globe enter the online arena with the intention of making a living as affiliate marketers. But the sad truth is that only a tiny fraction will ever succeed. Most will disappear within the first year while the rest will hang around until they no longer can afford it. The two main reasons are Information overload and lack of focus.
Never before in the history of the online marketing was it easier to make
money online than it is nowadays. The abundance of courses, mentors and
tools that exist today did not exist five or even two years ago. And maybe that is where the problem lies — too much of everything hitting our mail boxes, including scams and tons of garbage information.
Once a newcomer signs up for an offer, his or her email address begins to circulate. No matter how many times ‘they’ promise that your email will not be shared, most often than not, it will. Suddenly offers from people you never heard of begin to land in your box on a daily basis.
“Make a $1,000 Dollars In Your Sleep” or “Get Hoards of Free Traffic,” and similar headlines are very tempting to the newbie and could be very difficult to resist. And…
To make matters even worse, that newbie who has recently joined an online mentoring course, a program that promised: “This is the only course you will ever need in order to be successful,” begins to get other offers, in the form of “I highly recommend…,” from the very same person/guru who had sold him the first and promised him/her: “This is the only course you will ever need in order to be successful.”
Being inexperienced, these newcomers don’t even know that when they purchase the product, the guru is getting a cut from everything he or she “highly recommend.” Trusting that the guru knows what’s best for their students, they purchase and delve into the new program, way before they even had a chance to go over the first. And while exploring that new offer/course/software, the next one hits their mail box.
These newcomers arrive to the online arena totally unprepared. They trust, spend money, explore everything and end up learning nothing. Soon after starting their journey they begin to suffer from Information Overload and, hence, lack of focus.
Making a living online need not be very difficult. And under the tutelage of a responsible instructor it is not. Luckily there are still a few mentors out there who are responsible enough to give their students ample time to learn, digest and master the first course before they approach them with another offer. A good teacher stresses the importance of focusing on one subject/technique at the time before moving on.
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