Slowly slowly catchem monkey

Hello to all!

Have any of you taken the plunge and actually got into IM? If you have, if it is not a rude question, how are you doing? Statistics show that around 95-98% of IM marketers do not cut it. that is a very disappointing statistic from anyone's point of view.

Even worse, those damn statistics show that around the same amount find themselves having to go back to a dead-end job, sometimes in a lot worse financial state than they started out. Really great. Your savings gone, and your dreams shattered. Just what everyone wants and needs.

And yet it is not that hard to make money online, or so it is claimed. Millions of people holding out their credit cards for you to stamp. You are rolling in money and clover. You wish. So you chase the leprechaun's rainbow with every get-rich-quick scheme you can find. This does only ONE person any good. THE SELLER of said scheme. Yes, some of them do have some good in them. But who wants to buy a hundred programs in order to ferret just one piece of information out of them?

Yet, you CAN make money. If you try and do not expect big houses, rich vacations and shopping sprees to be available overnight. It is simply not possible. Yes, there are people who have done it, but they are few and very far between.

So let's look at the whole picture without any disappointment or anger. Sure, you may be only earning $5 per day through all of your efforts. But over 7 days, that adds up to $35. And 28 days later, you will have $160. Yeah, not nearly enough to buy everything you want/need, so why bother?

But say you work on making that $5 per day into $7 per day? At the end of a month, there's something over a thousand there. Now, that is not to be sneezed at. And, if you really push it, you can get up to gasp! $10 per day. Now that is getting to be serious money. $70 per week can buy your groceries, or some of them. It can pay for a pair of shoes for one of the kids. And it can add up to $3640 per year.

This was something an old friend explained to me once, except she had a bricks and mortar shop. A florist's shop. Her first payday, after she paid for her flowers and the girl who was helping out part-time? The princely sum of $15 for the week to spend on the family. The next week was double. $30. But by the time she had fought and scrimped for a year, she was turning over $1,500 per week. Nothing in that to sneeze at. But this lady worked her butt off. She simply did not believe in a free lunch. Dutch, yes, but not free.

So, don't be disappointed when your first week only puts in a small dribble into your account. Resolve to experiment and find what works. You can guarantee that each and everyone who boasts that they are earning hundreds of thousands per week started the same way. A few dollars popping into your account at a time.

My friend used her shop-girl to fill in the times she was working as a solicitor's clerk, which paid the bills. But,  as the money came into the shop, she cut back on her hours as a clerk, until she was wholly self-sufficient. This seems to be the way to prosper online. Do not bungee-jump into the wide blue yonder. Even these people have a life-rope attached. Don't throw yourself off the cliff without that rope.