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15Time For The Answer To Are The Internet Gurus Lying
Filed in: Uncategorized by Bo Tipton on 01-15-09This blog was originally started to see if the Internet Gurus were lying. I wanted to see if you could still start a business using “free” tools to build your business. Now I say “free” in quotes because there are no free lunches.
Normally when you sign up for the “free” tools you are going to get several never before offered and will never be seen again great wonderful buy it now offers before you get to the free tool. That is fine and is part of marketing.
The “free” tools will not have all the bells and whistles of the paid version but it will still work.
You are also going to be on the person giving you the “free” tool’s mailing list. Now some of the mailing list are actually good list to be on. There are some of them with good content that will help you build your business.
Many of the emails you receive have more ads then a television program. Most of them are nothing more then sales letters offering the next greatest, wonderful, secret method to get rich in 90 days.
Once again the tool is not free because you are going to be paying to use the tool with your time. You are still paying just paying with time instead of money.
So we call the tools free but they still cost something.
No matter how you your build your business it will take time, using “free tools” just takes longer. When you do not have money to invest in building your business it is okay.
If you do not have money to invest in your business start from where you are to get where you want to be.
You cannot leave Dallas, Texas to go to California and start in New Mexico if you are in Dallas. It doesn’t work.
Now to answer the question are the Internet Gurus lying? Can you build an Internet business using “free” tools?
We will be back with the answer right after these commercials.
No, not really just kidding.
The answer to, “Can you build an Internet business using “free” tools?” is Yes and No.
I can hear the moans all the way over here in Kentucky. What do I mean yes and no? Yes, you can build an Internet business using free tools. The Internet Gurus were not lying.
Yes, it will take a little longer but it will work.
For instance, one of my favorite places to get traffic to my sites is traffic exchanges. If you join as a free member in most cases you are going to have to surf 3 times as many sites to get the same amount of traffic a paid member would surfing. What a paid member would do in 15 minutes would take you 30 minutes to do the same thing
The Internet Gurus didn’t lie they just didn’t tell you the whole story. They tell you the story about how a construction worker made $100,000 in 90 days but leave out the part that it took him two years to get to the point where he could do that.
As your business grows and money starts to come in you are going to have to invest part of it in your business. It is a fact of life you are going to have to invest in your business. As you invest profits in your business it will take you less time to do the same thing.
The good thing is starting with free tools you can invest what you earn from your business back into your business. That is much better then maxing out the credit cards and emptying the bank account.
The answer is also NO.
You cannot build a business using free tools. You can have a hard drive full of free tools and they will make you nothing unless you have a game plan.
You have to know where you are going with your business before you start.
You cannot be in Dallas, Texas and head east and expect to get to California. You can eventually get to California going east but you are going to have to go a long ways to get there.
I get emails everyday from people who have tried building a business without a plan.
They have tried a new great and wonderful program, and that didn’t work so they tried the nest great and wonderful program which didn’t work. They spent more time signing up for programs then they did following their non existent game plane and wondered why it did not work. They ended up back where they started from with an empty wallet.
It would be much better if you knew which way to go before you started out. Do your research, find something that you can believe in to market, learn how to use the tools, focus on building one thing at a time, and control your time, along with other factors we will talk about in future post.
If you focus and follow your plan yes, you can build a business using “free” tools.
Okay here is step one. Don’t skip this step it is important. Write down exactly how much you need to make a month in your Internet Business and what the money is for. It does not matter if it is enough to pay your utility bills or enough to replace a six figure income. Write it down. Know where you are going before you leave.
No writing down,”More money” that is not an answer. You write down more money and when you make a dollar you have reached your goal.
Also writing down, “As much as I can” is not an answer.
How can you decide what to market or what type of business you want to build if you do not how much you need to make. If you need $200 a month to pay a bill then marketing a product that only pays a couple of dollars a month, like referrals to a traffic exchange, is pretty simple. If you need $20,000 a month then that is a whole different story.
Know before you go.
Next post we will talk about step two.
You cannot build the house until you have laid the foundation.
Here is a great ebook to help you with setting up your game plan.
Yes it is free http://just-4you.com/botipton/pizzaplan-blog
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Bo,
A brilliant Post.
You have “hit the Nail on the Head”
One of our members at Beginners Marketing Class just posted a message of the same Theme.
http://www.beginnersmarketingclass.com/Forum/viewtopic.php?p=2035#2035
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Planning has made a massive difference for myself personally. I know how much money I want to make, how much I want to make in a year, 2 years, how I plan to get there, and much more.
It’s part of what pushes me to do better all the thing. As Bo said, setting up a solid plan is a key part of your foundation to success.
Solomon Huey
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Well, some so-called gurus are merely following the “fake it til you make it” philosophy…some are out for a quick buck…while others ARE just plain lying!
It is tricky deciding who’s real versus who’s not, so you just have to look through their content and use your instincts and intuition (if you have any
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