We’ve all heard people telling us that we’ll never make money online, it’s all a waste of time, it’ll never work and many other negative things about internet marketing.
But it does work. Some people become rich and others make nothing at all, even lose money. So what’s the difference between these people? The people who succeed know the lies in this business and do not believe them.
Here are 5 big internet business lies:
Lie #1: Starting and running a internet business is expensive.
You can actually start an internet business with very little cost. There are many high quality affiliate programs where all you have to do is concentrate on marketing. The follow up, product delivery and support are all done by the owner of the affiliate program.
Lie #2: You can make easy money on the internet.
People still have a tendancy to believe that they can make money on the internet overnight by doing hardly anything. We are constantly being bombarded with systems that have made people millions in just a few days. Which may well be true for that particular launch, but it takes months even years of work to get yourself in a position to use a system that will make you millions.
Lie #3: You must know HTML, web programming and graphic design to start your business.
You don’t need to know all of these at all. Or even any of them. There are marketing guru’s out there that don’t even have the first clue how to put up a website. The trick is in finding the right people to work with. You can outsource jobs that you can’t do yourself, or joint venture with other marketers to combine your skill sets.
Lie #4: You don’t need to know how to sell on the internet.
Many people hate selling, and these people get attracted to ads that claim ‘no selling necessary’ or even ‘this product sells itself’. Usually these products are unfeasible and run by fly-by-night marketers. Do you really think it’s possible to have a successful business by doing nothing at all? The trick is not to try to sell to people, but to educate and inform them. Show them the benefits to their life if they owned your product.
Lie #5: You don’t need to build a mailing list.
I know you’ve all heard the ‘money is in the list’ mantra. There’s a reason you’ve heard it so often though, because it’s true! But more importantly, the money is in the relationship with your list. Deliver value over and above their expectations and you’ll be well on your way to success.
The above 5 are just a few of the internet business lies out there. Remember, if it sounds too good to be true, it probably is.
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Wow, I have been pretty busy over the last month or so.
As you may already know, I live and work in Koh Samui, Thailand. After finishing off the coaching course with Alex Jeffreys I’ve been busy putting his blueprint for a successful online business in to practice. One thing I didn’t expect to end up marketing though was iso 9001 quality manuals!
Over here in Samui you meet lots of diverse and interesting people. I love the island life, you find a real sense of community as everybody tends to know or know someone who knows everybody else. Anyway, I was chatting to a friend of mine, Tony Connor, whilst watching the saturday full premiership program down the pub and we got talking about what we used to do back in England. It turns out that Tony is an expert (guru?) in iso 9001 quality control and has been working in the industry for the last 15 years. He also mentioned that he has been thinking about writing a bunch of iso 9001 compliant manuals that he feels would be invaluable to many companies in many different industries, he just didn’t know how he could go about profiting from them.
Now this is where the light bulb went on in my head and I saw the potential to market a high quality product, carrying a fairly high ticket price in a niche that I thought we could compete in well. We continued our discussion over the next few weeks and came to a business agreement we were both happy with. The website (ISO 9001 Manual) is almost finished now, and I’m looking forward to making some sales for us both.
The rest of my time has been taken up recently on another joint venture with 3 students from the Alex Jeffreys coaching course. This month myself, Garry Parkes, JT Martin and Gary Simpson will be launching our own JV giveaway event. I’ll be releasing more details about this closer to the launch date but we will be looking for contributors fairly soon so stay tuned.
Exciting times!
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Alex Jeffreys is one of the fastest rising stars of the internet marketing world. In the latter part of last year I realised that I wasn’t going to get anywhere with this internet marketing malarky unless I found myself a mentor who has done what I am trying to do. Like many of you, I follow a lot of the big guru’s and subscribe to their lists. I can’t actually remember which one it was that put me on to Alex, but I decided to sign up to his very reasonably priced coaching program. It was only open to 500 students so I was very pleased to get my spot, and also knew that whatever I was taught, only a very small percentage of people out there trying to make it, would be learning with me.
This coaching program totally changed my thinking and the way I went about building my online business. He tells it like it is, and doesn’t try to sell us some pipe dream that is never going to work. He has given me the tools to build a solid business foundation, which I will be implenting over the course of this year to create my successful online business.
Alex is determined to give his students everything that he didn’t have when he started off in internet marketing. There is no quick and easy, push button way to create a profitable online business (regardless of what many internet marketers will try to tell you) but Alex Jeffreys coaching program is helping us to avoid some of the mistakes that he made along his way. In 2008 Alex reached his first 6 figure income target, and plans to hit his first $1 million by the end of this year, although most of us know it will end up way more than that.
If you are interested in learning more about what Alex Jeffreys teaches, you can download a free report about his list building system here.
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