Last June, at least I think it was last June I joined up with a mentor to try to put some credance in my meager attempts to make money on line.

As with most other things I had tried I had a lot of enthusiasm at first and jumped into the program fairly aggresively.  And with most other things I have tried I soon found out there is a whole lot of work required to make any of these programs pay off.

Not saying this program was any worse or better then any of the others but as you may have guessed I still have not made any money, or at least any appreciable money.

I don’t really know how the other folks are doing in the program.  The amount of success doesn’t seem to be shared very much.  There are some people that have gotten their own products out there.  I have also noticed I somehow have ended up on the email lists because I often get offers from them in my email.  Sometimes for their own product but most of the time for some one else’s product they are promoting.

Anyway, I don’t know if anyone else is making any money or not.

My primary effort has been trying to build a decent email marketing list, which is what I have blogged about mostly up to this point.

I have created a list of a few hundred, but I understand you really need thousands to make the marketing numbers work in your favor.

Of course at a point I started veering away from my daily goals and task lists and was pulled toward pursuing some of the other opportunities that kept being presented.  

The first of which was actually from my mentor.  Being from my mentor I naturally joined it, but soon found out it was beyond what most of us can afford to pursue, unless you have an unlimited PPC budget to hang in there long enough to get a return.

One of the things my mentor said right up front was: “don’t chase the money, just do your work and the money will come”.

Boy that sounds like sound advice doesn’t it?  Like a lot of you, I suspect, I got a little anxious and did not follow that advice and started chasing the money.

And that is what I intend to blog about for awhile.  The programs, opportunities, scams, come-ons, false promises, hypes, and all the other stuff I have fiddled with in the past few months with little to no results.

Although, some of these things should really work just as they are shown to do.   They are mathematically sound but only if you can convince others to come along for the ride.

Which is what all the internet marketing is all about.  You have to sell an idea or a product to someone on line.

There is a whole thing about, “helping others”.  Help others and it will be returned in spades.  I bought into that for awhile but kept noticing the “help” that is offered is always followed with an “upgrade now if you really want this to work” or “you will only see this offer once, so if you want to really make some money, give me some more”.

I don’t know why this surprised me.  Maybe I am getting cynical but I think the primary objective of everyone in business is to make money for themselves.  Helping others is only the ploy to bring a new prospect into the fold and line them up as a customer.

I hope you all know that I am fully aware, if anyone reads this post I will probably get a lot of comments about how negative I am sounding and probably lots of advice about how you really have to work at this stuff and not expect it will fall into your lap.

Just to head off some of that.  I don’t think any of you have probably worked any harder then I have the past few months.  I hope you worked smarter then me but I doubt if you worked any harder.

Till tomorrow when I will be a bit more positive and will start a chronology of my efforts the past few months.

I also hope to get back to the 6degrees of separation theory at some point to see if there is another approach to that process.