"Lessons I have learned from my failures"

One thing that comes up time and time again among Affilorama members is their absolute need to get focused, stay focused, and stop being distracted by every new shiny offer that comes along, promising to make you thousands of dollars overnight with no effort whatsoever.

Yeah… you know the ones I’m talking about.

We’ve recently had some great posts on the forum on this exact topic:

Smuigal kicked it all off with…

“A while back there was this video introducing a new "system". They totally trashed affiliate marketing as a loser way to market online. Then they made this very bold claim of earning a fast 20k in 20 days or something like that. What they really did was invested 14k to earn 6k. I don't have 14k to lose in order to earn 6k so I'm pretty sure that program was a complete failure to most people who tried it.

THIS is in fact my greatest peeve about making money online. These clever videos that suck you in and then treat you like their personal ATM which by the way, they talk about all the time…

… Wouldn't you like to say NO to being their personal ATM machine? I do. I have and I hope I can help some of you do it too…”

The metaphorical ball then sailed through the air, past a bunch of excellent tips and observations, before landing squarely, serendipitously, at the feet of Digiblue. Without hesitation, he swept it up and made a mad dash towards the goalpost with his response…

“…Sometimes I think the marketing world we are in is one sick and sinister industry, which is full of lies, scams and hype. It sucks newbies (and experienced marketers too) in and spits them out over and over and over again until we either quit marketing all together and look for the next pot of gold or we reach a moment of clarity...

That moment of clarity is when we realize that we have bought product launch after product launch, we receive over 15 emails from marketers every day to your inbox and we're so busy trying to "learn" and stay up to date with the latest hype that we skip over the one key thing that will make us money and that is ACTION (yes that horrible "A" word we all like to avoid). In this moment of clarity we devise a plan to do things differently and to take action on it by staying focused and we start picturing how great everything is going to turn out...

But then a funny thing always seems to happen, we reach that state of clarity but it is like a dream that soon fades away and then we are back to the cold dark reality of doing the same thing again. We know the trap intimately but we go and walk straight back into it. It is all too easy to get pulled back into the marketing madness, the seductive sale messages, the promise of ridiculous wealth in only X amount of days and that new product launch that just landed in our inbox which has been hyped up all over the Internet from different marketers and those damn bonus packages if we are buying through there link...

Finally there will be a day when you cannot go on any longer living like this, sooner or later it will hit, it could be a few months or a few years but it will come. It is that day when the record is scratched so many times it will not play anymore, or the final stick has been placed on the camel’s back, breaking it. It is a day when you finally break free of the marketing trance that you were stuck in for so long and you say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!....”

And because Aletta doesn’t really know anything about sport, her lame analogy ends here. Suffice to say, this is a great thread. If you’ve been having these problems yourself, I strongly recommend you dart on over to the forum and read this full thread.