Why Does This Stuff Have To Be So Hard?
That was my first thoughts a few months ago when I mad my first attempts to make money online.
Sometimes it just seemed as though things were uneccessarily difficult. I knew there really had to be an easier way. This is especially when you hear in one ebook, “Oh yeah this stuff is easy, just do _________”. (You could fill in the blanks with whatever you want and you would probably be right).
So, I would just do “____________” and I would get screwed in the process.
Worse, I would later hear, “Oh you tried that, well just keep doing it. In fact, why don’t you buy my new course along with the ebook so you can pay even more money to waste your time with crap that doesn’t work. This stuff is easy”.
Yeah. It’s easy to sell a bunch of crap, but lets see who sticks around when the roses fail to grow.
Fast forward, I’m now about three weeks into using YACG Pimped* as a template for my portal sites and here are some of the highlights…
- I actually managed to get one day with an 80% click through rate for my adsense pages.
- My adsense earnings on my sites went from $0.35 per day to almost $10 per day ($9.92 to be exact)
- My natural search engine traffic is increasing.
- It looks as though maybe it really isn’t so hard after all.
I hate when people tell you something is easy, just because they want to sell you something. But then again, I guess that’s just all part of the game of selling.
I remember when I first went into the vending business, there were plenty of people who were willing to help me get started. I grew to about 50 locations before I hit a roadblock.
The roadblock was, how do I manage more locations without driving myself nuts? It is true that after a certain point, management is more important than the money you earn. This is because without proper management, you will lose the extra earnings anyway.
Well anyway, back to the vending thing. All these vendors who were willing to help me out at first got quiet all of a sudden once I grew to 50 locations. Did I do something wrong?
No that wasn’t it.
I found out later, that ussually, when you grow to a certain size, you become competition. From that point on, you are now a competitor and all trade secrets are off limits to you. In other words, your on your own buddy. Good luck.
Luckily however, if you look hard enough, there are a few honest people who are willing to help you succeed. I used to hear the phrase, “when the student is ready, the teacher will appear”.
Well, I really believe this is true now. Although it’s hard to see the light at the end of the tunnel when you’re struggling.
The truth is, this stuff doesn’t have to be so hard. Dishonest people make it harder than it is sometimes simply by not telling the truth about what truly works and what doesn’t.
Anyway, looks like I got a little off topic again.
I am currently using some social bookmarking methods as promotional tools and I am about to hire someone to do some other types of promotions for me. It looks like so far, any promotion will be better than nothing. Besides, I have been getting great results so far. From nothing to something is pretty good passive income.
Plus I have some really good people on my side who know that the internet is big enough to lend a helping hand to the little guy without the fear of competition.
I’m not trying to hurt anyone or steal food from off someones table. I’m just a regular guy with regular dreams, trying to earn some extra income online honestly.
So far, so good. When the student is ready…
