Hi Everybody..
It’s competition time!
So…first, what does the winner get!
- $50 of my hard earned cash!
- An hour to brainstorm with me on Skype and we can talk about how to get the best return on your $50!
- I will send you a copy of ‘Think and Grow Rich’. This book is a life changer, and changed my perspectives on many things to do with my business!
Now..what do I want you to do?
- Comment on this post. I’d like you to tell me the biggest obstacles you have encountered when trying to make a living online. This could be that you can’t get enough traffic to your sites, you don;t know how to build a website or that you can’t create your own products, it could be ANYTHING! The more detail you give me, the more likely you are to be picked as the winner!
- Sign up to my RSS feed – In the future I will address all your problems, and tell you how I overcame them!
- Follow me on Twitter! www.twitter.com/DRChamberlain
- Put your name and email address in the box below. This is how I will notify the lucky winner!
I will be announcing the winner on Friday 7th August, via email, and I have also pestered my buddy Matt Wolfe to do something special for everyone, I’ve just literally begged him on Skype and he’s agreed to do it!
You guys are going to love it, I’m sure!
Anyway..Good Luck!
David Chamberlain
{ 8 comments… read them below or add one }
Hi David,
Found your post at the Warriors Forum, and got here out of curiosity. Getting straight to business (
) – neither the traffic (or lack of it thereof), nor the learning curves associated with the tech aspects of setting up a website stop me from getting started as an internet marketeer. I’m considerably tech-savvy (write WP plugins, use Linux, make my own graphics, etc), and if I may say so myself – I really can’t think of any one step of any IM guide that I’ve read that I cannot execute.
So what’s stopping me?
I just feel myself lacking in creativity. All the tactics look trite to me, I can’t think of a single thing that hasn’t been done before. Sure, if its popular, it’s popular for a reason – and I am sure I will even make some $$$’s off the – ahem – “proven” strategies. But I want to do something unusual. The problem is that I’m myself put off when I see big headlines making claims to being unusual (never-seen-before, next-big-thing yada yada – pick your synonym!), so even being different has, ironically, become cliche.
Grrr
Dunno, sometime I’m sure I’m going to give up on the ambition of creativity in favor of getting to it and making some cash
Also, perhaps my problem is that I am unable to do any copywriting that’s truly out of the box. Any attempt at anything that looks remotely like a sales page sounds horribly standard (a fellow marketeer would see through it right away, and tick off the “techniques” employed).
Marketing doesn’t come to me naturally (if there is any such thing), and I am not the aggressive types. Perhaps it’s not something a marketeer should aim for, but I want to be somewhat subtle, and still make the money.
So [apparent lack of] creativity is perhaps the best way to describe my stumbling block. Let’s see how it goes!
Best,
Avani
Avani´s last blog ..The tweetergetter experiment, continued.
Hey David,
I think the biggest challenge for me when it comes to internet marketing has always been a lack of focus. I am the guy who purchases one ebook, tries it for a few days, and then moves on to another method. I have always had a hard time working on any one method if it doesn’t see immediate results. I am working extremely hard to break myself of that cycle but that has always been my biggest downfall up until this point.
Matt
Matt Wolfe´s last blog ..How I’ve Done What I’ve Done
Hi David,
I would have to say, like Matt, my main downfall has be a lack of focus and ultimately setting up a sustainable, long term business. I have always flitted from one thing to the next, picking up some money along the way until the well runs dry and then it’s onto the next thing.
I have had some major aha moments over the past month or so and realise it’s time to go back to basics, put out some good content and stop chasing the money around.
I look forward to speaking with you again soon.
David
David Walker´s last blog ..I Don’t Want to Be the Asshole at the Party!
Hi David,
My biggest problem with building a sustainable information product business is that you need to have a complete system in place and it has to all be done right.
There are so main guides and systems out there that have part of the puzzle but not enough. You always end up having to join the bits together by yourself, or worse still have to try and find the missing parts to make it complete.
Thanks
Keith
Since Matt and David have already stolen my focus problem, the second item on my list of many is deciding on what to become the so called expert in. I should really pick a category or specialty to become very knowledgeable about and then help others in that area. But I am having a hard time doing that. Kind of related to focus but more like not choosing something to focus on.
Bob
Bob Hughes´s last blog ..Welcome To My Blog
Hey David,
Great looking site — nice layout and posts
Be talking to ya
Rich
Richinec(AJ mentee)´s last blog ..LIFE’S A PUZZLE
Hey David,
Great post and idea. You’ve been staying really on busy on this. Good for you mate!
Throwing my ring in the hat, I would say that my biggest problem as been getting over the hump. I’ve got an adwords campaign going that’s doing pretty well, but still not up to that level that I’d like to get to. I think one of the biggest things that’s held me up is organic traffic to my site. In other words, traffic to my site that doesn’t come from paid advertising.
Once I get to the point where its at least half and half, I’ll feel much better about it. Oh yeah, we got a new video up at themarketingmadmen at youtube. You should check it out and you can see how far we’ve made it and where we’re trying to get.
You’re doing great David and congrats. Will look forward to when we all make it and can meet up during our travels.
Justin
Hey Dave
Man I aint here to take the prize
HOWEVER …
I am here to say what a frickin COOL blog you got man, just had a little browse around
AWESOME stuff bro .. nice one !
Dean
Dean Holland´s last blog ..You Wanted It – Let The FREE Content BEGIN !