I was an average guy working in a 8 ? 5 job earning a comfortable 2k salary monthly. Me being single and a thrifty person, it was sufficient for my basic needs and even managed to save up 20k plus. A close friend of mine told that it will be better to use that money to good use rather than let it get poor interests from banks. We decided to open up a pasta caf?, me being the investor and him to run it. The opening was good for the first few days and I went about my usual work thinking everything will go on fine. But it did not. Business was bad for the next 3 months and we decided to close the shop. Instead of making profits we ended up paying an additional 5 over thousand to meet the clauses. During this whole period, I only ate once at my pasta caf?. At present I crack jokes to my friends saying that plate of pasta cost me 20 over thousands but at that moment the feeling was no where near being funny.
This incident created some sort of a phobia for me with businesses and decided that working 8 ? 5 is the best idea and safest. Things went on as usual and then I got introduced by another friend to network marketing or what is popularly known as MLM. I met lots of people who were successful earning wages monthly that were equivalent to my annual wage. I was convinced and signed up for an MLM company.
Now I have nothing against MLM but over time I realized that I do not make the money if I do not sign up more people under me or do sales. Naturally I am not a good communicator let alone have the caliber to talk and close sales. I finally understood that MLM is not for me and carried on my JOB again.
After this I got married and very soon I realized my income was not enough at all to sustain my family expenses, I depleted all the remaining money I had in savings and ended up in debts. Although I did not make it in MLM, it broadened my thinking and caused a craving to be successful financially and started to really dread working 8-5 and my bad financial status was getting me desperate.
This was the point when I got a Making Money Online pop up when surfing the net.
Now with regards to the internet, the only two things I knew were to do simple searches using the yahoo search engine and check my yahoo mails. Seriously my knowledge of the internet was very limited and thought twice about pumping in money again and again.
After much thought I did sign up with one anyway for $27 dollars as the sum did not seemed too much compared to the thousands I spent in my earlier money making ventures.
And thank god I signed up as it really changed my life. Almost whatever that the program talked about was new to me but I took things step by step and really wanted to succeed. It was not like what they say like it takes only minutes to see results. I took slightly over 5 days but it was worth it. Compared to my previous times, I saw results slowly but it was encouraging to see money growing in my accounts.
Now I have been following what this program has taught and made much more than what I made during my 8- 5 working days( which I quit December 2006). I have not become a millionaire yet which I believe I will achieve but now I am making a comfortable five figure income working from home less than 10 hours a week. I am able to take trips without worrying about taking leave and the amount of work that will be waiting when I am back from holidays. I am able to buy things I want without so much a worry on the price tags. Just bought a Toyota Camry for cash and paid my down payment for my condominium. These were all totally unachievable in my eyes once.
Why I am writing all these you may ask. Its not to brag about my success but rather to let you guys out there know all of us do go through bad times and just endure it; strive on and you will see success. Mine came in the form of internet marketing and I thank GOD for all his blessings. I was lucky in the sense the first program I signed up for internet marketing did what it said; it made me rich.
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Sure you can make a quick dollar selling a few items to a few random people visiting your site, but that's short term thinking. Without a list, you have to be constantly marketing and looking for new prospects to generate cashflow from your product or service.
Let me repeat it again, the big bucks is in your list of subscribers. In fact, you can substitute the word 'money' for 'list', if you want any long term success as internet marketers. So the above quote could be read like this, "Lists makes the world go around," at least for you as a successful internet marketer.
And since having a list is equal to having money, having more lists will give you more options for your life. Why are lists so profitable? Let me give you 3 simple reasons:
1. People who subscribes into your lists already shows interest in your product or service
2. People who show interest has a higher percentage of purchases.
3. You can market your product or service to your pool of subscribers until they opt out, which
means a more consistent source of $$$ for you!
Of course, there are many other profitable reasons why lists are the most important attribute for your internet marketing success, but those are just some of the basics you need to understand for now.
You may be making good money without a list right now, but unless you have a list, you haven't tapped into the true income generating vehicle of the internet. It may be true that lists aren't everything, but hammer this into your brain, THE LIST (LIKE MONEY) IS MOSTLY EVERYTHING!
Without a list, how would you be able to market a line of your products to customers that already show an interest in related products? How would you be able to set up joint venture agreements with people who wants to market their product to your list ? therefore helping you make more money without you having to develop a new product?
You see, if you have a list you can sell an entire line of product that you have now and in the future. And you can sell other people's related products (if it has no conflict) without you putting in time, effort, and money developing a product!
If you haven't collected any emails at this time, it's not too late, set up an opt-in page on your website and start building your list of subscribers. Remember the wise saying, "He who has the list, makes the rules"
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