{"id":359,"date":"2007-05-21T19:57:54","date_gmt":"2007-05-21T11:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/internet-marketers-fail-when-they-get-lazy\/"},"modified":"2007-05-21T19:57:54","modified_gmt":"2007-05-21T11:57:54","slug":"internet-marketers-fail-when-they-get-lazy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/internet-marketing\/internet-marketers-fail-when-they-get-lazy\/","title":{"rendered":"Internet Marketers Fail When They Get Lazy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <strong>biggest obstacle<\/strong> that will stand in your path as you start and travel along your Internet Marketing journey can be encapsulated in one word: Laziness. Conquering it is key to reaching your money goals.<\/p>\n<p>People keep asking me why I say that 90% of Internet Marketers drop out of the industry within 6 months.<\/p>\n<p>The truth is I don&#8217;t have a fixed answer, but on bad days, it seems like everyone else who started out about the same time as me has moved on to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Network marketing<\/li>\n<li>Taken up a 9-to-5 job somewhere<\/li>\n<li>Doing the &#8220;financial trading cycle&#8221; which typically involves day trading or forex or options trading<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The sad part is that they inevitably hit a brick wall, then look at what I&#8217;ve achieved in the last year and comment &#8220;Gee, you&#8217;re lucky&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>That kind of stings, considering the amount of effort I&#8217;ve spent in Internet Marketing, determining a path, building bridges to other Internet Marketers (sometimes taking a 20 hour flight each way) and taking on more than what others would normally do because I want to move along the road further.<\/p>\n<p>So when I hear about the aspiring Internet Marketer who hasn&#8217;t taken action because he bought a new laptop and couldn&#8217;t figure out how to use it, and didn&#8217;t know how to configure his email, it makes me sad. Very sad.<\/p>\n<p>In 2 minutes I informed him that he ought to call Dell and his ISP&#8217;s toll-free number and get his problems fixed by the next day.<\/p>\n<p>Allaying blame on an inanimate laptop is tantamount to<!--more--> scolding the gas in your car because you got into an accident. It <strong>doesn&#8217;t<\/strong> quite add up.<\/p>\n<p>Is it a catchall and a generalization to say marketers fail because they are lazy?<\/p>\n<p>I think it&#8217;s more than just laziness, however, it&#8217;s a fundamental disconnect between your current reality and your long term goal.<\/p>\n<p>If you knew you were destined for greatness, and you spent the day futzing around (maybe playing online chess, or IMing your friends), who&#8217;s to blame?<\/p>\n<p>And if you have $127.05 in your affiliate marketing commission account, can you truly blame the &#8216;system&#8217; because it&#8217;s rigged?<\/p>\n<p>Why not start looking into the mirror, and take a cold hard look.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re truly doing your best and your best isn&#8217;t good enough, it might be time to consider other options.<\/p>\n<p>But if you&#8217;re putting in 30 minutes a week, and loudly yelling that the system doesn&#8217;t work, then you might eventually become part of that 90% dropout statistic.<\/p>\n<p>Should it be time to kick your Internet Marketing efforts up a notch?<\/p>\n<p>Like they say: &#8220;Tough times don&#8217;t last. Tough people do.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest obstacle that will stand in your path as you start and travel along your Internet Marketing journey can be encapsulated in one word: Laziness. Conquering it is key to reaching your money goals. People keep asking me why I say that 90% of Internet Marketers drop out of the industry within 6 months. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[22],"tags":[562,95,534,663,688],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whoisandrewwee.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}