Q: Tim, I spent the last few months trying hard to start an ecommerce business. I have read almost everything you wrote. I have listened to more than one of your teleconferences.
I clicked and clicked and clicked and clicked and clicked. I filled the laundry basket and sold it on eBay. I became a Clickbank ambassador (I think I am an ambassador for almost the entire internet).
I know it's weird that I want to make money online as I do not have a single drop of technology in my body, but I am a single mother: the important thing is that my children NEED me… and I don't really care when it comes to getting what I want (in other words, what I lack in technical skills.
Please, please ... give me one word or symbol or whatever ... that this MAY be for young people (like me). Otherwise, I will go back to my exhausting 5am job, I can no longer separate my children (which is not a compliment to a daughter and a son who is about 5 years apart!).
This online thing ignores me and from what I have read, you “Dr. Phil ”ecommerce wannabes, success and everything in between. (Please do not be annoyed by comparing Dr. Phil… .I use this in the traditional pop style).
I swear, I'm ready to donate my PC to the back fireplace and get back to my old typewriter: that's how frustrated I am.
Thanks for letting me express (it must be an estrogen thing).
- Mary (real name withheld)
A: Hello Mary, The first thing you need to do is close your eyes, inhale and exhale slowly.
(repeat as needed: o).
First of all, let me say that I understand your frustration, but it has been my experience that many people in your situation (including yours really early on) have caused a great deal of frustration because they put themselves under a lot of pressure to succeed. immediately. Their situation is unfortunate and they want to change it TODAY. If that does not happen, frustration and anger may well up.
Everyone wants to hit home run for the first time in bat. They want big money and want it fast. If the results don't come as quickly as they think, they will say, "The internet isn't working and those who claim to be making money are cheating!"
I have been an internet marketer for 3 years now. The first year I did badly. I lost about $ 5,000 trying to get everything for myself. One day it dawned on me that success would be easier if I knew what I was doing.
You see, I, like many others, did not take the time to educate myself about online advertising. I've seen others make money online and I can see that they can, and so can I.
I just found a full pool and a dove head first. As you might expect, I almost drowned because I did not take the time to learn how to swim. Heck, I couldn't even float ...
So I quit my job and became a student instead of a doctor. I found that I was making every mistake in the book because I was not giving myself time to learn what I should do, and more importantly, what I should not do.
After losing a ton of money, time, and sleep, it finally began to make sense.
I remember finally making a $ 100 profit on eBay in one week by selling my ebook (CD Money Machine).
I had made hundreds of thousands of dollars in other businesses, but that $ 100 was the hardest money I ever made. That's why it meant so much to me. He told me that FINALLY I was doing something right.
I took that $ 100 and plowed it into an additional auction list and continued to repeat the process.
Then I moved across eBay to my website.
Then I started focusing on product development, developing my own business plan, pursuing joint ventures, and expanding my marketing campaigns.
Success came to me, BUT AFTER I quit doing all the wrong things I learned to do a few things the right way.
Like many people before me and like many of you now reading these words, I wasted a year of my life and thousands of dollars because I did not give myself time to read first, and then I did.
I had unrealistic expectations of myself and the business. I was expecting huge sums of money and immediate results and when it did not arrive, I looked for someone to blame other than myself.
It took me a while to rethink my thinking so that I could finally learn to succeed.
And I succeeded in the children's stairs, not a big jump.
There was no running home.
There were a lot of bad balls and ultimately basic hits.
You succeed like that.
Here is the key:
There is no such thing as a real opportunity to get rich quick. If someone tells you that you can start with no money and no experience and make hundreds of thousands of dollars in one night you are lying to yourself and you are foolish to believe him. Yes, you can make a lot of money in a short time as an online retailer, but you will not get rich this week unless you win the lottery or your rich uncle dies. And you have a better chance of being struck by lightning than some of those things that happen. Be realistic, intelligent, and sensible. If it sounds too good to be true, then it is. An online business is no different from the brick and mortar business: both take hard work, dedication, patience, and investment of time and money. Just because your business is "real" doesn't mean you don't have to put some time and effort into starting, building, and running it. Yes, there are many things you can do to make the process automated, but you should build a business before you expect it to run automatically. You have to be patient, expect reality, and the ability to stay connected even if you do not get the results you originally hoped for. The problem with us humans is that we are kind of impatient. We expect our positive ideas to play quickly and diligently. We expect things to happen with lightspeed. We are a microwave community: no
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