{"id":164,"date":"2006-11-01T18:33:24","date_gmt":"2006-11-01T10:33:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/164\/destroy-your-internet-marketing-income-earning-potential\/"},"modified":"2006-11-01T18:33:24","modified_gmt":"2006-11-01T10:33:24","slug":"destroy-your-internet-marketing-income-earning-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/ewen-chia\/destroy-your-internet-marketing-income-earning-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Destroy your Internet Marketing income earning potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a site which made me a little angry.<\/p>\n<p>But for the most part I was laughing at the <strong>foolishness<\/strong> of the person.<\/p>\n<p>Around 352pm, a nameless blogger put up this page:<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Leaked Auto Blog Income Generator\" title=\"Leaked Auto Blog Income Generator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0611\/leaked-garbage.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Of course, I was concerned that he listed the download link for Ewen Chia&#8217;s Auto Blog Income Generator.<!--more--><!--adsense#wide--><\/p>\n<p>I got some help translating it.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Leaked Ewen Chia Auto Blog Income Generator\" title=\"Leaked Ewen Chia Auto Blog Income Generator\" src=\"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/images\/blog0611\/leaked-abig.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p><!--adsense#wide--><\/p>\n<p>It says something to the effect that &#8220;a famous Internet Marketer was selling this and now it&#8217;s yours for free. You can go to the download page and get a copy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand the logic of this individual, except that he&#8217;s not all there in the business sense.<\/p>\n<p>I figured the intent of Internet Marketing was, and still is, to generate income from our online endeavors.<\/p>\n<p>If giving away an income source floats your boat, then all the power to the blogger.<\/p>\n<p>My idea of investing in Internet Marketing tools and software is that you&#8217;re acquiring the tools to catch your own fish.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t see the point in giving away your fishing rod, your fishing line, your tackle to everyone who walks by.<\/p>\n<p>Is there a point to this?<\/p>\n<p>If the person was thinking they were &#8216;cheating the system&#8217;, they were only cheating themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Because in the process they might&#8217;ve shortchanged me to some extent, but ultimately they&#8217;ve shortchanged themsef.<\/p>\n<p>All this illustrates the naivete of many who enter Internet Marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Sure all of us would like to be the next Google, Yahoo! or Amazon.<\/p>\n<p>However, how many really cut it?<\/p>\n<p>Can a giveaway model work?<\/p>\n<p>They weren&#8217;t even building a list. Just using blogger to engage in questionable activities.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a first lesson for the wayward blogger.<\/p>\n<p>A <strong>successful business model<\/strong> needs to be:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Financially viable<\/strong>: You have to make profit at some point, even if you&#8217;re bleeding funds in the beginning.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Sustainable<\/strong>: You need to have a model that works in the long term. Not just 1,000 Made-for-Adsense sites that are cataclymically affected every time Google changes its search algorithm.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scalable<\/strong>: It must expand as the business expands. Can it become a household product globally?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>It&#8217;s only when you incoporate all three elements into your business planning process that you&#8217;d see results.<\/p>\n<p>And with the results, impressive returns.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I saw a site which made me a little angry. 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