Easy Money?
Written by: Don Miller
Posted on September 7, 2007
Filed Under Starting your Online Business
The lure of fast money has long been an internet marketing ploy. We have all seen the ads. “Make 1000.00 a day” “Live on easy street” The list goes on. The truth is you are not going to sign up for one of these types of sites and make thousands. You do however run the risk of spending it. A typical story goes like this. You can make money today! Just sign up here. You’re given a few tools, perhaps even a website, all for 49.95. But wait, you will need to sign up to get traffic to that website and we can do that for guess what 49.95! You set up an account with ClickBank, which by the way is free, and choose a few products. You’re getting excited when you realize you have to get people to your site or your pages to see the product. You register for Google Adwords to attract traffic and you set a modest budget of 10.00 a day to do so. You start getting clicks but no one is buying. At the end of a week you’re down 70.00 and you beginning to get aggravated and the only persons making money are those that are supposed to help you make it. You’re now down nearly 200.00 without a sale to show for it. How do I know this story? I lived it myself.
I continued exploring new ways to start an internet business when I stumbled on Site Build it. I read everything I could get my hands and eyes on about SBI. Frankly I had decided I wasn’t going to spend a dime more on get rich schemes and I was skeptical. SBI clearly informs all those viewing their pages this is not a get rich quick scheme. Their mantra of building relationships with your potential customers one by one mirrored my own philosophy. I signed on to be a 5 Pillar Affiliate. There is no charge to do so. Like they say “Free is for me”. On day one I had my first sale and made 75.00. I subsequently sold 3 more that week and purchased 2 sites of my own which I am presently developing. I want to make this clear; I am developing businesses not just a website.
No matter your passion, hobby, knowledge this system is geared for anybody to succeed. I spent well over 500.00 trying out one of those other systems, when all along I could have been building a business for 299.00.
The concept is really simple Content + Traffic+ Pre-Sell = Monetize. Notice the order in which these concepts are in. Far too many online businesses are geared to monetize first. That just not the way business online works. I will leave you with these simple questions. When was the last time you sat down at your computer and laid your credit card on the keyboard in anticipation of buying something? How about never? Now when was the last time you went to the internet looking for information, found it, got comfortable with the site, came back a few times then, got the information you wanted and ultimately made a purchase. That’s the more likely scenario. I did that with SBI and they even offered me a Free Test Drive of their product.
There might just be something to this SBI!
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I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Money?, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.
Lets see what I can help you with Daniel, The point is there is no way to make quick and easy money as many claim. Hard work , brains and motivation will win every time. SBI gives you the tools you need to help
I too am a Site Build It fanatic. Once these “newbies” learn the ropes and find out through wasted time and monies that none of these “Get Rich Quick” scams work, they too will looking for a 1st Class provider such as KEN EVOY and his crew.
Good Luck
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