The Key to Being a Success is to Find Something You Are Passionate About!

The key to being a success is to find something you are passionate about! Everybody knows that, its no big secret.

The key to Internet Marketing success is to get or find a product you would like to promote and are/or passionate about and focus on selling that or else you will get tired, run out of gas, and quit before you make a cent.

Can you honestly say that Internet Marketing success for you would be to sell a rip off product to millions of people and take the money and run? I don’t think so. Sure, you are making money but are you actually helping others to make money doing what they love and enjoy? Are you building the reputation of someone others can trust?

There are many “take the money and run” Internet programs out there, but a sustaining Guru eventually has to face the music and the people who made him wealthy by purchasing his products. In this blog, I am speaking to the Internet Guru, but with the knowledge that he probably is not reading this blog at all. He’s much too busy to bother.

I speak from non-experience where so-called Internet success goes as I have not made millions on the Internet so I am just guessing here. But for me, success is to cultivate personal relationships that can benefit both parties in a business venture and even a friendship.

I’m getting tired of squeeze pages, one time offers, and “You can’t afford me” marketers, or “you have to spend money to make money” bull crap designed to separate you from your cash, then designed to be so much busy work that you feel over whelmed and inadequate and not even worthy of a refund. You are simply a failure.

Bull crap.

So far the only consistent money I have made is from google adsense and that is a small amount per month with my hometown website and that will probably go down with my new compact design because I can’t find room enough for the ads. Oh well, I dislike a lot of ads on my home town site.

I told my sister that if she does not love spending time on the computer, don’t even go in with the attitude that you are going to make money easily or fast. Usually that does not happen.

I say usually, because I don’t want to rule out that it might happen. We all have to have our dreams.

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The Twitter Pond is Teaming With Paranas and Twitter Traffickers

After reading a few direct messages from Twitter users whom of course, I don’t know, I have recently noticed something. They are usually after one thing. They are looking for customers or driving Twitter traffic to their websites. The Twitter pond is teaming with hungry fish and they all want you as their next customer or sign up or visitor to their web site.

I am beginning to understand what the excitement is about Twitter as far as business is concerned. Everyone is out there selling their wares. The problem I am seeing is that there are a lot of sellers and not enough buyers. What if someone opened a flea market and all that came were sellers? That’s what it looks like on Twitter. I’m no different. I have my websites and I have my products and yet on Twitter I somehow feel lost and unheard amidst a roar of Twitter chatter.

So what will happen? I suppose Twitter will evolve, but I don’t think it will be going away any time soon. Maybe the sellers will end up striking deals with other sellers and forming alliances in their effort to attract new fish to their part of the Twitter pond. The frenzy to sell products and promote websites is at such a pitch on Twitter at this time that I feel like a tiny voice amidst the roar of the mighty Twitter chatter waves.

But I did find another use for Twitter that makes up for my dilemma, and for now, that is what I am using it for. By placing a script on my website I can update it easily with Twitter posts with bits of news and relevant information or comments anytime, from anywhere, even using my cell phone. It is a script that posts my tweets to the front page of my website as soon as I post something on Twitter. I can see great possibilities for an episode of Law and Order where a person is kidnapped and the kidnapper posts their ransome demands on the front page of some website from a cell phone.

I am also learning how to condense an entire article from my local newspaper into 140 characters. If you are from my small town and you read my Twitter posts on my town website at springfieldcolorado.com you can save a lot of time as I have condensed our entire local weekly newspaper into tweets. As the detective the old series “Dragnet” used to say, ” Just the facts mam!”

So the thought in my mind at present is that if it were not for that handy little twitter tool, I would probably get out of the hungry twitter pond of sellers or twitter twits who post about how they are bored or that they had a subway sandwich yesterday on third avenue.

The One Time Offer

And Why You Should Pass on Them

Okay so I am out to learn everything possible about Internet Marketing and how to be a success on the Internet business band wagon, but I have reached a breaking point where it comes to one time offers. (OTO’s)

Dedicating yourself to learning the business does not mean that you have to buy every training manual and ebook out there, even if it is from someone you respect.

I have been coming across a lot of tempting offers that I am considering for future purchase but those one time offers are just starting to rub me in the wrong direction.  Timing is everything for me, and sometimes I am just not ready for certain products and I get fairly annoyed at someone telling me that this is my only chance to get this product or at this reduced price.

Okay if that’s the way they want it, that is the way they will have it.  I used to have a strict policy that I would not be high pressured into making any purchases and somewhere I have let that policy lag and given into pressure and gotten sucked into that one time offer. Where did I go wrong and why do these Internet Marketing Guru’s have to resort to these kinds of sales tactics? They disappoint me once again.

As Wallace D. Wattles states in his book “The Science of Getting Rich” you should never be in a hurry.  If you are in a hurry you are operating in the competitive mind and not the creative mind. People must be taught to become rich by creation, not by competition.

“Man must pass from the competitive to the creative mind.”

“Every man who becomes rich by competition throws down behind him the ladder by which he rises, and keeps others down; but every man who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow him, and inspires them to do so.”

So remember the next time you feel pressured to make a purchase what Wallace D. Wattles teaches about the true Science of getting rich.   It’s competition and fear that fuels the one time offer, not creativity or honesty. One time offers are simply gimmicks to get you to make a purchase now while they have your attention because they know as soon as you leave their pitch page, they will probably loose a sale.

Hey Guru, Get a Product for Crap Sake!

I for one would like to see the entire face of Internet Marketing change and I think Google is doing the best it can to help  accomplish that, but I hope to find a few other Internet business people who would like the same thing.

I clicked on what was supposed to be a “special report” after having given my  first name and email to two different people, and low and behold that so-called “special report” was just another long pitch page for another over priced information and training product with endless videos,  that I was not about to buy.

This stuff  should be called the “going in circles chasing your tail”  business opportunity.

You know darn well all the people that buy this are not going to start doing the same thing;  and thank God for that because if they did,  Internet marketers would soon become the biggest joke in cyberspace, if they aren’t already.

There are some wanna-be gurus out there who think you are stupid if you don’t have a squeeze page and a one time offer. They will tell you that you need to force people to give up their email address to get your precious “free report” (or whatever) so you can collect a huge email list to pitch to your offers to your future followers. That may be a good strategy for some people but it gets really old after a while.

I really don’t mind giving my email address in exchange for good advice and good information, but I think it would be nicer if it were an option, not a requirement.   But to give out my email address to two different people just to be sent to a long pitch page for a product is just infuriating.

I would like to speak to all Internet Guru’s when I say this. For your information, a pitch page is not a free report, its just a pitch page.  If a free report does come with this wild goose chase, it better be a good one, but usually it is simply a viral ebook with affiliate links in it and a lot of old information.

I would like to suggest a more positive direction for Internet Marketing.

Get a real product!

Hey I’m no guru,  but I don’t think people are as  stupid as you take them for.

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“Special Reports” that are just Pitch Pages

If you are looking into Internet Marketing you know what a pitch page is.  Well I would like to express my outrage at the trend being that you give up your email address to receive what they call a “Special Report” to some Internet guru wanna-be and all it turns out to be is another endless gaudy looking pitch page trying to sell you some sleazy worthless product.

You people who tout yourselves and “Internet Marketing guru’s” and claim to have made thousands (or even millions) of dollars who are doing this kind of marketing,  don’t have my respect.   And frankly I don’t care how much money you made doing it. You guys are disgusting.

But I’m sure you don’t give a crap what I think anyway and you don’t care about having my respect as you laugh all the way to the bank with other people’s hard earned money. And if you aren’t earning any money then you are simply liars.  You make me sick.

Okay it’s time for me  to quit blog ranting  for the day,  I’m really quite disgusted.  I apologize to anyone reading this for my ranting.  Oh well…… I should not worry.  Probably  nobody reads this blog anyway.

The Infinite Income Plan

Infinite Income Plan

My question is this.  Where is the product?

The “plan” is the product.

Like money out of thin air, the Infinite Income plan just looks like an elaborate pyramid scheme that has no product. The actual product is the instructions on selling the instructions, which tell you  how to drive traffic to your squeeze page, that takes you to another squeeze page, both of them securing your email address for their mailing lists  and hopefully selling the information to others and getting $30.00 commission.

Then if anyone buys this plan, they proceed to do the same thing.  And they will tell you, ” this is not a scam.”   Right, but it is a pointless no-product business.  Please!  It may be ‘legal’ because you have an “information product.”  This information product being an information  product on how to sell said information product to other people.  How worthless is that?

The people who will loose are the people who have too much ethics to sell such a worthless piece information crap.  Don’t buy it if you have a conscience, and want more out of life besides ripping people off, you will just be out $49.00. (I didn’t buy it, I just researched it, which is what I do  before buying anything. )

I’ve actually seen many of these kinds of  “how to make money systems” on the internet.  They make me want to puke.   This one reminds me of those envelope-stuffing systems that just end up costing people a lot of work and money for stamps when snail mail was popular. Now, this system has graduated to the Internet.  Woopie doo.

After a week spent looking over these and other  kinds of Internet Marketing systems and all their so-called get rich quick  “secrets” I feel the need to take a hot bath.

I  just feel dirty for even looking at them.

Butterfly Marketing

I found a review about Butterfly Marketing that explains in simple terms the truth about Internet Hype and how it works.

“Butterfly Marketing. A theory that one small change somewhere in the world (even as small as a butterfly flapping it’s wings) can change the course of the future. The new theory being applied to the internet marketing business by Mike Filsaime. Seems to me that the name has changed and the information has been rearranged, but it will be more of Mike Filsaime’s techniques. Now don’t get me wrong I am not saying his techniques are not worth it, but do you need to pay $997 to read them again?”

For a quick and dirty summary of the way some Internet Marketing works.

“Invent your own product…hype it up like it’s the best thing since sliced bread….get your other expert buddies to write orgasmic testimonials….convince people this will change their lives forever like it’s the ten commandments….jack up the price so it seems like it must be good to command such a high price tag…..get a bunch of hungry affiliates who want to turn a fast buck off the backs of other struggling marketers….then, sit back and collect money for a few months while you come up with your next big product that will “change the marketing world”. It’s an old story. One that’s repeated over and over.”

Google Cash Detective, just a quick rant.

I don’t believe it. Sure, it looks like a a nice tool and a wonderful play toy for Internet Marketers using pay per click marketing, but I don’t believe the hype. I think it’s over priced and over sold and I think a lot of greedy Internet Marketers have sold their souls to over promote this product. I’m sure their affiliate bonuses are very generous given the competitive bonuses the guru’s are offering the buyer to purchase it through their  affiliate  link.

I don’t like the over sell. I am not comfortable with limited offers or any other trick used to incite a buyer to think he has to “buy now” or forever be left in the Internet dust. Give me a break. There is no guarantee that you will succeed using this tool, I read their disclaimer.

Just because you can spy on how long some advertiser is running their pay per click ad does not prove that person is making a profit. Some people are just out there throwing their money away on advertising. There is no guarantee.

I watched the video’s and I wanted the program but the cost is ridiculous. They are asking a ridiculous amount of money for that thing. $997 One-Time Joining Fee and $97 Per Month thereafter … and Lifetime membership: $1,997 Includes One-Time Joining Fee.

I don’t think so. Not having tried the tool I can’t really give a precise review of it, but I have tried Affiliate Elite and other spy tools  and I did not find them very useful.

Read more  on this rant at Bacaracka.com.

Too Much Information

Today I went to my Gmail account and deleted all of my emails that were hanging over my head to read and decided to start fresh.  I unsubscribed from a couple of things but not all of them.  I will decide who to unsubscribe as the new email offers start filling up my mailbox again.

I decided it was just too much information.  All I want right now,  is one single thing that will earn me enough money to consider myself employed.   I decided I need to focus on one thing at a time.   I have been wasting my time on social networks that are just an escape from the rat race and I need to get serious and focused on making a living.

Well that is my new resolve.  Time to focus.

I always seem to have so many irons in the fire I don’t even remember where I am or what I am doing both in the Internet world and the real world.  Recently I learned that it is good to get into the moment and focus on one task at a time and while doing it, to put all your attention in the present moment.

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Should you really be concerned with your competitors?

Be Creative, Not Competitive

When I read sales copy for a product that I am interested in I am always surprised when they mention their “competitors” or say that their “competitors” are doing this or that. They, of course are trying to tell you that their product is better than their competitors product, but all they are doing is bringing your attention to the fact that there are other similar products out there that compete with this one.

What they don’t realize is that I was not even thinking about their competitors until they mentioned them. If there is another product out there like this one and these people consider them to be worthy “competitors” I then begin to think that I should take a look at the other guy’s product and do some comparative shopping of my own.

The same holds true, I think, when you decide to sell a product. While it might be a good thing to learn what other people are doing, don’t get discouraged that others are selling the same type of product. Even with thousands of products out there, you will find customers for your products.

In the words of Wallace D. Wattles:

“We live in a thought world which is part of a thought universe. You are to become a creator, not a competitor. You are going to get what you want, but in such a way that when you get it every other person whom you effect will have more than he has now.”

“Riches secured on the competitive plane are never satisfactory and permanent. They are yours today and another’s tomorrow.”

“Remember, if you are to become rich in a scientific and certain way, you must rise entirely out of competitive thought. You must never think for a moment that the supply is limited. Just as soon as you begin to think that all the money is being “cornered” and controlled by others, and that you must exert yourself to get laws passed to stop this process, and so on, in that moment you drop into the competitive mind and your power to cause creation is gone for the time being.

And what is worse, you will probably arrest the creative movements you have already begun.”  (From “The Science of Getting Rich” by Wallace D. Wattles) Download the book free here.

So learn from your competitors, but don’t worry about them. Just be creative and do everything in that certain way that will attract wealth to you.