SteftheComposer
New Member
Hi guys,
After years of trying to make money online unsuccessfully, I have lots of questions. It seems like there's a lot of money to be had with all these money-making schemes, but in my experience, it seems like the scammers and frauds are the ones making all the money. Seriously, if it was as easy to make money online as these guys all over YouTube, social media, the TV news, etc. make it sound, don't you think by now most everybody would be working from home with all this passive income being sent to their bank accounts every month? Here's what I mean:
YOUTUBE
Videos that say, "Make $1000 a day!!", "I made $150,000 in my first month!!", "Get free traffic for your product!!", etc............ how many tens of thousands of videos are there on YouTube like this?
1. If what you're suggesting is true, why are you sharing it with everyone? Wouldn't you be shooting yourself in the foot by revealing all this information since you're just building competition for yourself when everyone starts doing this?
2. If you're making all this money from affiliate stuff, selling other people's products, drop shipping, etc, why do you keep asking everyone to "hit that like button and subscribe to your channel" since you're obviously making a LOT more money doing the other thing? Your video only has 20,000 views. I think you get $1 for every thousand views with the ads at the beginning of the vids. You've made $20 from this video you've posted, but you're suggesting this nifty idea to make thousands of dollars per month. Why does it matter whether people hit the like button and subscribe to your channel? In fact, going back to point #1, why are you even sharing this information with everyone since they'll compete with you now?
3. Why do you guys always seem to have a product of your very own that you're selling completely separate from the money-making idea you posted a video about? You're selling books, PDFs, courses, and membership fees to your website in the video description below the vid - is THAT really how you're making your money? Are you posting these videos to draw people in just so they buy your item?
4. Why do you NEVER show us this money-making scheme in your video live in action? If you suggest we go to XYZ website to do ZYX, why can't you show us a live example of this method where we can see for ourselves that it's legit?
* Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and other related social media platforms basically follow the same patterns as YouTube.
ANY TYPE OF MARKETING
It doesn't matter if it's affiliate marketing, drop shipping, or otherwise.
1. If what you're suggesting works, how am I as a newbie going to be able to compete with the tens of thousands of other people who are already doing this and have been for years? They've got connections - I don't. They've got a huge mailing list - I don't. They've been all over the internet selling to people around the world - I haven't. What am I really going to be able to do when I'm up against all that competition? I'm just lost in a sea of white noise - who's going to notice ME?
2. How legal is this stuff? Are there sites I can access to see how legal what you're doing is? I've heard of people getting sued and fined for doing stuff that many newbies thought was legal, but the whole thing was actually not legal. How do I avoid the unlawful?
3. When you say, "You have to work hard and be disciplined - and then you'll succeed!" for you to make it in business, why are you leaving out the most important thing... LUCK? It's all about LUCK when it comes to how people make it big in the business world. Hard work and discipline is only PART of what goes on - you have to be VERY LUCKY (in the right place at the right time) if you're truly going to make it - and I challenge ANYONE to disprove my premise.
SALES IN GENERAL
1. Do you really have to coax and sweet-talk people in order to buy something? It almost seems like an economy in the Western World is based in how many people were hoodwinked into buying stuff that they don't really need. Is that what makes the world go round? If so, I don't think this any world I belong in.
2. They say the rich get richer and the poor get poorer... is one of the reasons because sales reps from companies take advantage of poor people? Those who are poor don't want to be, but that's usually where the frauds and the scammers who sell junk will make their money since those people are desperate and thus believe what their being told by the con men sales reps. Again, is this how our economy works?
3. Psychology and propaganda are obviously involved in selling. Should those of us trying to sell a product learn more about these two fields? And I ask again, is this how the economy works where such unethical tactics are utilized daily?
I'll have more examples as time goes on, but for now, I think that'll do. Everyone can hopefully see where I'm going with all this.
Thanks
Stef
After years of trying to make money online unsuccessfully, I have lots of questions. It seems like there's a lot of money to be had with all these money-making schemes, but in my experience, it seems like the scammers and frauds are the ones making all the money. Seriously, if it was as easy to make money online as these guys all over YouTube, social media, the TV news, etc. make it sound, don't you think by now most everybody would be working from home with all this passive income being sent to their bank accounts every month? Here's what I mean:
YOUTUBE
Videos that say, "Make $1000 a day!!", "I made $150,000 in my first month!!", "Get free traffic for your product!!", etc............ how many tens of thousands of videos are there on YouTube like this?
1. If what you're suggesting is true, why are you sharing it with everyone? Wouldn't you be shooting yourself in the foot by revealing all this information since you're just building competition for yourself when everyone starts doing this?
2. If you're making all this money from affiliate stuff, selling other people's products, drop shipping, etc, why do you keep asking everyone to "hit that like button and subscribe to your channel" since you're obviously making a LOT more money doing the other thing? Your video only has 20,000 views. I think you get $1 for every thousand views with the ads at the beginning of the vids. You've made $20 from this video you've posted, but you're suggesting this nifty idea to make thousands of dollars per month. Why does it matter whether people hit the like button and subscribe to your channel? In fact, going back to point #1, why are you even sharing this information with everyone since they'll compete with you now?
3. Why do you guys always seem to have a product of your very own that you're selling completely separate from the money-making idea you posted a video about? You're selling books, PDFs, courses, and membership fees to your website in the video description below the vid - is THAT really how you're making your money? Are you posting these videos to draw people in just so they buy your item?
4. Why do you NEVER show us this money-making scheme in your video live in action? If you suggest we go to XYZ website to do ZYX, why can't you show us a live example of this method where we can see for ourselves that it's legit?
* Twitter, Instagram, Facebook, and other related social media platforms basically follow the same patterns as YouTube.
ANY TYPE OF MARKETING
It doesn't matter if it's affiliate marketing, drop shipping, or otherwise.
1. If what you're suggesting works, how am I as a newbie going to be able to compete with the tens of thousands of other people who are already doing this and have been for years? They've got connections - I don't. They've got a huge mailing list - I don't. They've been all over the internet selling to people around the world - I haven't. What am I really going to be able to do when I'm up against all that competition? I'm just lost in a sea of white noise - who's going to notice ME?
2. How legal is this stuff? Are there sites I can access to see how legal what you're doing is? I've heard of people getting sued and fined for doing stuff that many newbies thought was legal, but the whole thing was actually not legal. How do I avoid the unlawful?
3. When you say, "You have to work hard and be disciplined - and then you'll succeed!" for you to make it in business, why are you leaving out the most important thing... LUCK? It's all about LUCK when it comes to how people make it big in the business world. Hard work and discipline is only PART of what goes on - you have to be VERY LUCKY (in the right place at the right time) if you're truly going to make it - and I challenge ANYONE to disprove my premise.
SALES IN GENERAL
1. Do you really have to coax and sweet-talk people in order to buy something? It almost seems like an economy in the Western World is based in how many people were hoodwinked into buying stuff that they don't really need. Is that what makes the world go round? If so, I don't think this any world I belong in.
2. They say the rich get richer and the poor get poorer... is one of the reasons because sales reps from companies take advantage of poor people? Those who are poor don't want to be, but that's usually where the frauds and the scammers who sell junk will make their money since those people are desperate and thus believe what their being told by the con men sales reps. Again, is this how our economy works?
3. Psychology and propaganda are obviously involved in selling. Should those of us trying to sell a product learn more about these two fields? And I ask again, is this how the economy works where such unethical tactics are utilized daily?
I'll have more examples as time goes on, but for now, I think that'll do. Everyone can hopefully see where I'm going with all this.
Thanks
Stef