WHY so many fail ?
Why do so many people fail at internet marketing and here in Wealthy Affiliate?
I wonder about this often.
It seems that with all the training videos here n WA, and all the videos you
can find on line you would think the success rate would be much higher
than it is.
Why is it only around 2 percent of the people who try to become online
marketers ever become successful?
It cannot just be signed off to laziness because I am pretty sure that 95%
people here in WA are lazy.
It cannot be just because people are just not smart enough because over
the years I have met a lot of smart people in here that failed.
It is not because people just give up quit because I know people spent years
working at this without success.
So what can it be?
To me when you join a learning site you kind of expect at least a little success
after spending a great deal time of money.
And to be honest a 95% failure is unacceptable( yes that is the failure rate)
even here WA is more than likely about the same rate.
Why is it some people just can't to do certain aspects of online marketing?
To be honest Am tired of the" if Can do it you can to" speech.
It is obviously not true.
So why ? Why do people still fail when putting in great effort, concentrated effort
money and time?
I really don't know the answer, but I am beginning to believe it is because online
marketing it a lot like being an artist, everyone can improve on how well they draw,
but only a few we become good at drawing,and a very , very few will ever become
actually artists.
I think a lot of online marketing is a talent that only a few have and most will never
be good at.
The only to by pass this if you do not have the ability is to have an online marketing
artist take you by the hand,walk you threw it personally,help change things on your
site,help you write ads, and help you set up a traffic funnel.
so maybe this is why 95% of people will fail at this.
Most of us are not born artist.
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You have many people who are already successful before ever coming to WA.
WA is not about earning money as much as getting a world renowned education in the process of becoming successful online at whatever niche you're passionate about.
There's only 2 ways to fail with WA the way I see it, the first is failure to remain a premium member and the second is to quit.
For most failure is not an option, but an obstacle and a lesson.
All The Best
John
webcash2us , to say WA is not about earning is just not true for most that join WA, and it is just a rationalization for not making money with WA.
And the truth is , there are thousand of people that die with both their dreams and finances never realized even tho the never gave up , you don't hear about the millions of people that never gave up but never reached any type of success , and yes even died broke
you don't hear about them because they don't get to write the books that we all read , nor do they get to go around on talking tours
You get to to see and hear only the tiny few who make because they are the ones we want to see , but the truth many people never give up but still never become successful.
Did you not join WA to learn? Am I missing something?
I didn't mean that you don't want to earn money of course we all do, but it's the education on how to do that here that's the real value.
Not everybody achieves their dreams is true, but those dreams are not your dreams, your success is completely up to you.
I have had a ton of dreams I never achieved and some I gave up on, but others I was far more passionate about and I succeeded in achieving them.
WA can make dreams come true if you do your homework.
All The Best
John
I never said WA wasn't about wanting to learn, what I said for most it was about learning how to make money online.
Most came here to learn how to make money,that is just a hard fact..
And you cannot say that 95% of WA members are not doing thier
homework and due diligence .
A lot of people in WA are working very hard at this, trying their best to learn , but are still struggling ,and most we never find the success they are after.
But my post wasn't about debating how hard people are working or not , my question and hypothesis is try find out why ?
I am interested in the why, not the same old talking points and hur ra! you can do it if you just keep trying. speeches.
Even the Navy Seals only about a 70% failure rate , an they have to go threw some of the most difficult mental and physical training there is .
So I am interested in the true reason failure in I.M. is so high.
Much Higher than colleges , higher than Advance education <
Higher than just about any training for any job.
It depends on how each individual defines success, money for me is not my definition of sucess. What I found in WA is priceless...It's the knowledge and friendship that I have gained here that cannot be measured by dollar value. When someone receives joy from my help that is what I call true success 😄
Don't get me wrong, my desperation for finance is why I signed up and honestly I still have made no more than $20 in total, but as I get more involved with helping others here it is now no longer why I am still here and besides, not everyone will agree to being generalised as failures or not being successful. Just saying.
It is definitely a mind set, I have had two goes at WA with a gap of a couple of years in-between. The training the second time around, albeit updated, makes more sense than it did the first time. This not because the training is fundamentally different but because my attitude to it is different.
It's not a sprint, many people who look at digital entrepreneurship erroneously think it is a quick and easy way to make money.
It is not, it's the same as any other business, requires time and effort. WA if you want it to supplies the rest.
I am pretty sure it is not mindset, a lot of people come with great mindsets ,but after a year or two leave defeated
That is exactly what happened to me the first time... for me the wrong mind set. A bit more research and learning and my attitude/mindset towards digital learning is different, that's my story though. everyone has a different story or circumstance.
renrodav , if I may be so bold , how are doing now financial with internet marketing?
Has the new mindset translated into more wealth?
it isn't anyof my business , but if it did help you I am sure many of us would luv to know what changed in your thought processes that made the changes happen
I think the main reason is sticking strictly to the training wihout exploring and researching on your own. Internet and Google changed dramatically since 2012 so there are new things you should pay attention to.
Also, you should check the most successful people here and copy their way. It is not illegal.
I think that the most successful are always up to date, they follow online authorities and new the hottest topics.
That is the thing basically.
Of course hard work and patience included.
Strahinja1 , I believe that is true in many cases, but not when it comes to Internet Marketing.
How many here have tried to model Kyle, how many have pick a well known Internet Marketer but failed to duplicate that success?
This why I think it may be more like being an artist rather than most training.
You can watch a great artist, and really focus and try to make your hands do exactly what the Artist hands are doing , but yet your art looks no where as good as theirs .
And no matter how long you practice , how much you study it , you more than likely will never duplicate the artist art.( his success)
Because for most ,it is just not in us.
at a 95% failure rate in I.M. it has be either that or the info is just not being presented properly.
I have seen a couple people enter into WA and totally own it in a matter of months, one young man seem to do it effortlessly.
With in a few months he was off and running and was super successful in less than a year,
But others that try to do exactly as he did, failed.
and I have seen many others who work extremely hard,study the courses, put in a lot of time and effort and never get any thing to come together >
So there must be another reason for failure other than laziness, lack of effort, failure to "to do their homework"
There must be something deeper than that.
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Thought provoking article - don’t really have a single answer to your question either: think it is due to many things. Often we don’t find out here at WA because people just leave and melt away.