When I first started out with internet marketing I used to marvel at the numbers that some of the ‘gurus’ would throw around
$20,000 per month, $50,000 in the last 30 days…etc.
What I didn’t realize back then was that these were some of the most industrious, focused and prolific business people around!
The truth is that the secret to long term success is in being prolific.
Your one offering (no matter how grand and valuable it may be) will rarely (read never) provide you with enough stability and income to make an exotic Secret Agent lifestyle possible on the Internet.
It’s like placing all of your money in one stock – you’re setting yourself up for a very nasty and costly fall.
It’s good and right to love your product – but never “bet the farm” on an Internet venture and never allow yourself to fall prey to ‘tunnel vision’.
What that means is that you don’t want to love the idea of your product so much that you are not willing to abandon it if it fails to make a profit. (In some cases it can actually cause you to lose money!)
There is a scripture in the bible that reads:
“In the morning sow your seed,
And in the evening do not withhold your hand;
For you do not know which will prosper,
Either this or that,
Or whether both alike will be good.”
Eccl 11:6
That is exactly the way it is on the internet. Be prolific. Don’t be afraid to abandon a product that you thought would be a surefire hit, but hasn’t delivered.
Sell you own product yes, but don’t miss the opportunity to market someone else’s product if the opportunity arises.
If you have already purchased a resell rights product – have you set up the website? Have you driven some quality traffic to that new web-page?
The more (quality) products or services you are involved in promoting, the greater your chance of success will be.
Just think…if you’ve ALREADY purchased a product with resale rights and you haven’t yet put up the website and tried to resell it, how much money are you missing out on?
The fact that YOU bought the product proves that it has a market so you could be robbing YOURSELF!
Being prolific will also allow you, the security of knowing that if you do produce two, three or more profitable products that appeal to different markets, you will be able to weather downturns in one particular market or the other.
If the widget market suddenly dwindles, you might find that your health and fitness market is in fact growing or at least remains stable.
This is undoubtedly one of the lesser revealed insider secrets, yet it probably accounts for more than 50% of all successful marketers’ income!
Successful internet ’secret agents’ that are making a living online are quick to create new products and even quicker to market products that are proven to sell well.
I’ve venture a guess that if you were to ask ANY successful online marketer (in YOUR own estimation of success) whether they have made their fortunes with the use of just one, two or three products they’d probably burst out laughing!
Most probably, (and this has been my own personal experience when talking to people I consider successful) the products that they thought would produce the most success failed! (Or met with a rather underwhelming reception)
And what happened then? They refined the product, changed the sales letter or sometimes just abandoned the whole product and moved on.
There are no guarantees in this business but you WILL dramatically increase your chances of success by diversifying your offerings and becoming prolific in your approach to internet marketing and product creation.
