Stop! I can’t take it anymore!
The word “free” used in the internet marketing business is something I have never, ever seen in my life before. I have been in a lots of different sales businesses before but IM is in a class of it’s own.
I was looking to make some extra money and had lots of time on my hands as I am(was) semi-retired. Hmm Stay at home..play on the net..sounded good to me. I had no idea what I was in for.
I have seen, in the 4 months I have been doing IM, more angles, slants, sales pitches and systems than I’ve seen in all my 35 years of business life. The word “FREE” is used like a piece of candy to a baby and I have trouble turning them down when what they are selling is “free”. It is one powerful word. Once you go for one thing free, look out there’s 10 more coming up behind.
When does it end! When does it rest! Well I’ve figured out the answer is never. I have signed up for and downloaded so much free stuff that in a million years I’d never read or institute even a small portion of it. It makes my head spin just thinking about all the things I need to read and do. Hey! Wait! I am retired. This business just puts it’s hooks in and reels you in, going deeper and deeper and making it a more than full time thing.
You start the day with the intention of completing a task and Bam! In comes an email about something free from someone, who in the past has given you good info, and off you go on a tangent in a million different directions and never do the job you wanted to when you started.
Stop! Please! Turn off the tap..my head is spinning…information overload! Well wait..I have control of the tap. “Shut it off Seth”.
I have read advice in several places to not jump into every new system that comes along..just start with one thing..get good at it then go on to the next. Sage advice,but they never said anything about stuff that was ”FREE”. I mean how wrong can you go with free! Too bad I haven’t heeded it.
Right this minute I am going to do that. I am going to unsubscribe to everything and just sit back and take stock of where I’m at. Phew! That’s better. Relax..Focus.
Ok I’m better now. A new leaf..a focused direction..stay on task.. shut off all the distractions..Well better check my email. Hmm.. One from John Reese.. he’s really good. I like his info… A recommended deal from John Reese..Well maybe one more thing. This one isn’t “FREE”.. It’ll cost me a dollar… Yes that’s better. At least I didn’t fall for “FREE”.
Seth
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Seth
Well I fill better now that I have found a person who feels the same way. Free, Free or $1.00 it is all the same. They want your email so they can bait you again and again until you bite. I like reading about free stuff it gives me idea of what is selling. I have taken them up on the free stuff with no shame I am a true believer that nothing happen until somebody sell something. I have been in the IM less than three months. I am retired and I am enjoying every minute even the spam. I try not to be so gull-able as to answer every email and join every news letter or pay for a chance to become rich. I like the sound of it, but I try to keep my feet on the ground. Maybe one day I will leave the ground with piles of money under my feet. Rest assured that I will leave the earth with the same thing I came into the world with, nothing but real love.
Ha..ha..thank you Seth for giving me a good laugh. You describe so well what it is like being hit by Information Overload and above that all this Free stuff.
This is what most of us experience when we try to find some source of income and get literally overwhelmed by all the opportunities that are available.
I have downloaded a lot of e-books too and probably will never have time to read them all at least in a hundred years or so.
Hmmm…next thing to learn will be focusing on one thing at a time, at least for and hour or so…maybe make a plan with a clear goal and do at least one thing a day to take a step against that goal..that might help to find a way out of the Internet djungle!!
Have a great day
Marja
http://www.betterlife4you.info
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