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Categories - Shopping - Free Online Business Help - Telecommunications Services - Copywriting Articles: Online Business - The Net I attended a web conference not too long ago and I overheard two guys talking in the men’s room. One of them said, “I got two grand off the net yesterday. I guess I finally made it. It only took me three years”. At first I was impressed that someone could make $2,000 in one day from the Internet after only three years, but then it occurred to me. That’s how these guys do it. They think of them as The Net. I spend a lot of my time in Affiliate Marketing and I think of The Net as Them. I think of Harold, Crystal, Samantha, Gerry, Art, Frank, and others who have signed up in one of my downlines when I think about my business. They think of these same people as The Net.
Without talking to someone, I can sense the urgency in the way people sign up for things and I can tell if it’s because they are excited about the possibility of building their own online business or if they are desperate and turning to “The Net” as a last resort because they need money. I warn them that it’s going to take a while depending on how hard they work and how much money they have to invest in their free business opportunity. Invariably, I get a response something like, “Maybe I could sell stuff on eBay real quick. Do you have any eBay books you could give me?” I send them a book along with a list of actual online job sites and I usually don’t hear from them again.
If they were “The Net” to me, I could tell them that they needed to plop down the remaining available credit balance on their credit card and upgrade to Gold or Executive level to get things moving faster. I could do this knowing the numbers. They vary depending on whom you talk to but something like one out of a hundred make any money on The Net. One out of a thousand makes a more than a little money. One out of ten thousand ends up making a living and it usually takes at least four years to get there. If they were The Net, I could take their money until the current “Razor”, “Bullet Train”, “Tiger Tail” or whatever Marketing Program goes out of style or gets saturated. By then, enough Newbies would be online to start all over again. You can’t think of Newbies as people either.
I wondered if I was being a sap about the whole thing so I brought the conversation up as often as I could. It turns out, that most Affiliate Marketers think the same as I do and most Network Marketers think of Them as The Net and they think of type “A”s and “B”s. Anything but people. Affiliate Marketers feel responsibility towards their downlines and they think of retired military people, just retired people, work at home moms, laid off people, and want to work at home people. So, what is the difference? I’m here to make money. The Net guys are here to make money.
I guess I want to make money because They, my affiliates, make money. I want to feel good about it knowing that I helped a mom stay home with her kids or a retired couple get by a little easier.
Getting paid for doing that is just about the best thing that could happen.
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