Want the brutal truth?
Ok, here it is:
  1. 99% of people fail at Internet Marketing. Only 1% of people succeed.
  2. Making millions of dollars online is about building a proven working system that takes years to perfect.
  3. No one will share the exact system they use. The exact systems used by high net-worth marketers to make money online are a well-kept trade secret shared only with a few high-paying customers.
  4. Customers pay as high as $1 million to buy the exact system that makes 1 million dollars.
  5. To reach a million dollars in earnings, you may have to pay a large sum of money to a mentor (guru) just to access the ‘inner circle’ of exclusive friends, members and associates who also have exclusive access to trade secrets.
  6. Audiences are the new currency. Online millionaires own large audiences including hundreds of thousands, probably millions of email subscribers.
  7. The online market space is controlled by a cartel of only a bunch of online marketers and super-affiliates, who do not trust anyone, except themselves. They partner to protect their interests and, occasionally hold private camps to find ways to control the top niche markets and advertising revenue.
  8. Top online marketers often use insider information about the products, services and the companies they promote. The secret is to get as close as possible to the inner circle of top CEOs, affiliate managers, and merchants.
  9. Most successful online marketers who make millions of dollars have direct access, and play closely with top management, CEOs and affiliate managers of top organizations.
  10. Advertising is a multi-billion dollar industry involving big players like Google and Facebook. As such they collect the fat checks while leaving small-timers to fight over left-overs, and they will use their very well-oiled technical machinery and financial clout to ensure you don’t get far.
  11. Advertising and online marketing is a bruising battle over billions of dollars in advertising revenue. As such, politics, envy, rivalry and enmity between top players are the order of the day.
  12. You must realize that there are no friends in the business. What online marketers refer to as ‘friends’ are not exactly friends. They are just shrewd business associates who partner together, through legal contracts to work together, share revenues and form joint ventures.
  13. You have heard it being touted that you can you just “copy what other people are doing”, and “steal the exact system I use to make money” and you will also succeed, blah… blah… blah. Unfortunately, this doesn’t always work since the systems themselves keep changing and circumstances keep shifting.
  14. The secret to making big money online is to partner with an experienced mentor, who will guide and help you through a step by step strategy. Unfortunately, many mentors, trainers, and gurus ask for an exorbitant amount of cash even before you begin to earn any money. Besides, many would-be internet marketers do not have the patience nor the cash to learn to crawl first before they walk. Many succumb to pressure and give up even before they see their first dollar.
  15. In online marketing, the hardest goal to achieve is the first $100. Afterward, you can just scale up to reach $500, $1,000, $10,000 and then $1 million. The rest is easy.
  16. The online market pyramid is very crowded at the bottom and sparsely populated at the top. Don’t strive to reach the top quickly at the expense of your health, friends, and family. You may die sooner before you make it.
  17. In online marketing, there are many mistakes to be made, and many lessons to be learned on the way to the top. Along the way, you will certainly lose money and make more enemies than friends.
  18. The allure of online riches, luxury homes, exotics cars, beautiful women, financial freedom, time freedom, location freedom, “it is easy to make money online”, make money from home, make money while you sleep and such other crap, keep the online marketing engine going. It is a creation of the media and online marketing gurus to continue eating your money.
  19. The allure of making money while you sleep, earning passive income, using automated systems, using hands off systems and such other terms are designed to attract millions to the online market space. But did you know that it takes many years to set up such systems, and that there are thousands of employees who work day and night to keep the systems going?
  20. Most training ‘programs’, courses or systems sold in the online marketing space are outdated tactics that probably worked 5 or 10 years ago to make a few bucks. The course developers have probably moved on to new tactics they’ll never share with you unless you pay a premium or join the ‘inner circle’.
  21. Most successful online marketers have used black hat techniques or sold adult products at one time or another when they were desperate to make ends meet.
  22. Most successful online marketers were addicted to pornography at one time or another. Many are still struggling with it.
  23. Most of the so-called screenshots, results or “social proof” of earnings you see in blogs, sales letters or sales pages are cleverly designed copy to sell you products that will never work. Even the reports that are genuine must have taken years to achieve. What they don’t tell you is the process they had to go through to achieve the results.
  24. Most successful internet marketers struggled for years, working long hours, going without food, sleeping on the couch, and sometimes, spending sleepless nights trying to “crack the code”. Unfortunately, newbies buy the opposite.
  25. Most successful internet marketers stumbled on a working formula completely by accident.
  26. Most wannabe internet marketers never make a dime online because they do not have the patience nor know-how to create their own products and revenue streams.
  27. Only a bunch of online entrepreneurs know the secrets to make millions of dollars online. These people are experts in particular skill know-how or niche market, towards which they remain focused, consistent and faithful. Most new online marketers have no patience nor knowledge of how it’s done, therefore they experience frustration after frustration.
  28. The online business space is like the 19th century California gold rush history repeating itself. Many of the people who went to California to look for gold, did not find gold, while others lost their fortunes, and yet, others lost their lives. However, quite many people made a fortune in another industry – selling the tools to prospect and dig the gold (pans, cradles, rockers, flumes, shovels, hammers, etc.). Similarly, only a bunch of internet entrepreneurs are making a kill building systems and tools for online prospectors, diggers, and losers, who continue to believe that one day, they will strike gold.
  29. Quitting your coveted 9 to 5 job before you figure it out is like committing suicide.