Why 99%+ Of All People Are Destined To Fail At Making Money Online#
Important: The first two modules in this part of the training are not here to put another thing on your already full plate of things to do but instead to free up your plate and become as crystal clear & focused as possible.
Therefore, please don't skip any module and instead go through all these modules in order.
This is really important as later parts of the training require you to have gone through and set these fundamental building blocks.
Without further ado, let's dive in.
Tip
This part of the training is audio-only. In order to put yourself in the optimal state to hear this important message, I highly recommend you use headphones and ideally listen to some (thoughtful or focused) music first before jumping into the training. Give it a try! 😊
For example: this great song or this great track or maybe this track
Start Here#
Most People Will Fail At This#
Unfortunately, it's a known fact that most people will fail at this.
We'll explore why that is the case and - more importantly - how to guarantee that you become part of the less than 1% of people who succeed.
I hope you're ok with me cutting the BS, telling you the truth, and not sugarcoating anything here.
Because that's what I'll do here for you anyway...
The message sucks the first time you hear it, but:
It's simply a fact that the vast majority of people fail at trying to make money online.
But why is that the case?
There are a couple of reasons...
Everything In This Industry Is About Consumption#
The entire industry - all "gurus", all "fake gurus", and even most of the people who pretend to try to help you, often by "calling out the bad guys" - is about getting you to consume more.
It's all about getting you to buy more.
But how are "they" doing it?
How can so many shady marketers make so much money, and why are they successful at it?
Simple: They convince everyone that it's all...
"Fast & Easy Money"#
Have you ever come across these terms on sales pages and within a VSL? (video sales letter)
It is...
- "set & forget"
- "copy & paste"
- "push-button easy"
- "a guaranteed formula"
- "proven to make $XXX per hour in 100% passive income"
- etc. etc.
And, of course, there's:
- "no product creation"
- "no need to create a website"
- "no list building"
- "no email marketing"
- "no need to provide any value or create any helpful content"
- "no work, just push this button"
- etc. etc.
The more a product vendor can convince you that it's (a) extremely easy, and (b) that you see results quickly, the more he/she will sell.
It's that simple - unfortunately.
They Just Don't Care#
Most of the time they don't care about what happens after the sale.
You can see that all the time, especially with "software launches" on JVZoo and WarriorPlus.
These products often get completely abandoned after the launch and the product vendors just move on.
There are no support, no maintenance, no improvements, and no updates.
And they're already onto "the next shiny thing", the next "great" software launch.
It works for them - unfortunately. Too many people buy into that garbage over and over again, every month.
And that's why you come across these really crappy, often "standard Clickfunnels membership areas" and just horrible and outdated software dashboards after your purchase.
They just don't care.
They are really good at getting you fired up and excited on the sales pages and at the beginning of webinars, to keep you consuming and to sell you more stuff.
9 Out Of 10 Product Vendors Just Want Your Money#
It's that simple.
Unfortunately, the same people are not very good at delivering on their promises.
They don't talk about this stuff and they don't give you the big picture - all to keep you buying more stuff.
The really crazy part is that many of these people even brag about it behind the scenes!
They brag in smaller settings about the fact that they went broke, couldn't make anything work, couldn't replicate their earlier successes, and then made a lot of money by creating and selling a (mostly useless) product!
Total insanity!
Ripping people off and then bragging about it... I mean, can one get any lower than this?!
And then there are...
"Serial Product Launchers"#
In all honesty: Do you really think a person who's launching a new product every 2-4 weeks is able to do anything else but product launching itself?
For real: Developing a valuable skill, being in the trenches daily, applying and mastering the process you're about to teach, and then putting a great, valuable, helpful, and hopefully ethical product together "on the side", while doing all this stuff... Creating the sales material... Starting affiliate recruitment... Etc. Etc.
All that stuff takes time.
In fact, a lot of time!
So if any product vendor is bringing a new, shiny thing every couple of weeks to the market...
I'd be careful and skeptical at the very least!
But what can we do?
How can we make sure to...
Never Getting Scammed Again#
In order to never get scammed again and finally becoming successful, there're a few things that we need to cover in this training:
- Stop the bleeding: Stop buying shiny objects
- Eliminate all distractions
- Learn the business basics: Learn real online marketing
- Develop and build a proven marketing system (no worries, we'll cover it all)
- All about niche & audience selection
- Building your relationship-building & conversion machine
- Effective traffic generation
If you work through the entire training and overcome these obstacles, you will succeed at this.
How To Stop The Bleeding#
I don't want this section to get too long, so I make it short:
Stop buying shiny objects.
That's really what it comes down to.
We've been there personally, so we know how hard it is sometimes.
How enticing these sales pages sometimes can be and sound like...
That's one reason why we implemented the "review channel" within the Secret Affiliate Insider:
To satisfy the curiosity of those who haven't made the mental shift from business opportunity seeker to strategic entrepreneur yet.
Plus, it'll put you in the position to be able to create reviews around products that you otherwise couldn't get access to.
But more on that later.
Most known marketers and "big gurus" share great things like that - But: Only for their "high ticket clients".
We want to change that - once and for all.
The Real Problem With Shiny Objects#
But here's the real problem with "shiny, low-ticket objects":
The loss in time is much worse than the loss in money.
Find a vendor/mentor you can trust, a training you can follow, and stick with it.
But no matter who you follow and what you do: Stop buying shiny software & empty promises!
They only suck you out of money and time.
From "Opportunity Seeker To Business Owner" - The Missing Mental Shift#
What is the difference between an opportunity seeker and a business owner?
The first one has just one criterion to buy new products: The promise of money.
And that's exactly why "bizopp seekers" - who haven't made the mental shift to business owner yet - are being sold on the latest promises and shiny objects over and over and over again.
The strategic business owner, on the other hand, has a plan.
He or she does NOT buy new products just because they promise to make him more money.
Instead, he has a plan and strategically decides on what needs to be done next in order to reach his goals.
For example: If the strategic entrepreneur decides that "the biggest problem he or she currently has" is in the execution of his follow-up email sequence, then he or she won't buy a new video course on TikTok marketing.
And he won't buy a course or software on how to drive traffic from Instagram to his affiliate link.
He "sees the bigger picture", has goals and a clear strategy and plan, and is able to see everything else as exactly what it is: A Distraction from reaching his goal.
A distraction from implementing his plan.
Online marketing legend Rich Schefren wrote the great "Internet Marketing Manifesto" (incl 2 follow-up chapters) in 2006 about exactly this topic.
You can find my article, inspired by it, here.
Bottom line: The moment you make the mental shift from business opportunity seeker to strategic entrepreneur/business owner, you're no longer susceptible to sales pages and sales pitches that are unrelated to your plan!
And the exact plan to make all of this work is coming up next in our course... 😊