I Must Of Hit a Nerve With Internet Home Business Owners and Affiliate Marketers
My last few posts have dealt with Affiliate Marketing and people who own an Internet Home Business. My goal was to present an alternative view to Internet Home Business owners, a view that was unbiased and one that I would not benefit from, either way. The response was swift and some what furious. It could be divided into two camps, responses from people who do own an Internet Home Business, and those that have something to gain from these Internet Home Business owners signing up in droves to be Affiliate Marketers. Here is the breakdown.
My comments were directed at people who are either very new, or are thinking about opening up an Internet Home Business and are doing so with the sole purpose of being an Affiliate Marketer, selling some one else s products. These people were genuinely surprised that what I was saying, compared to the other side of the discussion, the claims of the owners of the products, the people that have all to gain from this exercise. Here is a further breakdown of my comments and my position, as an explanation to the people who responded.
1. Opening up an new Internet Home Business site, and doing so to sell some one else s products, be an Affiliate Marketer is not a good idea. Your chances of success are far less than 1 %, that is a fact that is borne out all across the Internet, on sites and from sources that have nothing to gain from saying so. The reasons for this dismal success rate is clear, new sites do not have traffic, no traffic , no sales, that is a cruel fact of life on the Internet, something every new Internet Home Business owners needs to realize.
I am learning this fact, right now, the hard way. I have about 10 web sites, they all have the same problem, no traffic, and as a result, no sales. If I knew what I know now, a year and a bit ago, I would have done things entirely differently. I would of built one site, properly, and would of gotten traffic to it in order to see if what I had was of any value, then I would of added the other sites. I can not change my history, but I can at least save other new Internet Home Business owners from the same fate.
When you add into the mix that most new sites are being built to be Affiliate Market sites, that just makes the situation worse for the new people.
2. Building a new site, from the ground up, is a long slow process, even for the really experienced people. When you add a new person to the mix, building a new Internet Home Business from scratch is a daunting task. Once again, if I had known this fact a year ago, once again, I would of done things differently. I would of positively gone into this on a part time basis, I would of done this to allow the things that take time on the Internet to happen, such as building Page Rank, key word rankings, SEO activities, link building, brand awareness, blogging, getting the word out, letting the site get known, all of these activities take time and can not be rushed.
If anyone tells you that they can get you to the top of Google in 7 days, run the other way. They are either outright lying to you, or they are using illegal Black Hat techniques and will just get you banned , and then you are permanently banned and out of business. Someone told me a long time ago that if you want to do business on the Internet, you better buy yourself a pair of cement shoes, because you are going to be stepping on a lot of land mines out there. He was very accurate in his description of the dangers of doing business on the Internet.
A quick summary. Affiliate Marketing is everywhere, everyone is talking about it, most everyone is touting it, it is THE business that most people suggest you get into to start your own Internet Home Business, why all of this hype. EASY a small percentage of the people doing all of the hype, are making a fortune, the rest of the people are making zero. This is the story of the Internet, less than 1% of the people make the money, the other 99% of the people end up paying for it in one fashion or another. Be careful out there, have a great day, see you tomorrow.
Bryan Beckstead, Internet Home Business, Internet Home Business Ideas,
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