Copyright © Patricia Brucoli
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.comOne of the most interesting phenomenon I have experienced as an
Internet Marketer, is business opportunity addiction and Internet
marketing tool obsession.
We are Opportunity Junkies. I have experienced this first-hand,
as well as witnessed otherwise perfectly sane people becoming
compulsively obsessed with the 'kid in a candy store' mentality.
Born to Shop!
It's like the excitement becomes the addiction! Every time you
speak to them, it goes like this: 'Hi, how are you doing today'?
'Oh, just GREAT, I just joined XYZ.com', ABC.com, and QRS.net,
wow, I'm stoked.' 'Oh'.
I have been rehabilitated and now tease a few of my friends about
this and even subtly scold them, of course, followed by giggles
or written LOL's, so they don't think I have over-stepped the
line on what a friend may say.
I am so happy I have learned to articulate exactly how this
problem manifests, as well as the repercussions, so that I can
attempt to do an intervention, before they are hopelessly lost
like I was. (If you wanted to kill me in my weakened state, you
would just have needed to start explaining one of those 3x9
forced matrices here, and if you were particularly cruel, you
would include a graphic representation).
I know how it started with me. Somehow I got the phrase
'diversify' in my head, and that was what I thought I was doing.
The rationalization was I would find out which one works. If I
tried enough things, at least one had to work.
I will have one of these, one of the blue ones, and a couple of
the red ones. Now I know these are called Niches. Wow, only two
months in this business and I was a real empire builder. Domains!
Yes I shall be master of all my domains! Cyber Monopoly! Woo-Hoo!
Multiple streams of income - there's an alluring, addictive
phrase. There are many other tempting nouns and verbs that are a
part of this wonderful world of Internet Marketing! For instance,
'Massive action'! Yes! Make my day! Well, I did need more than
'work at home in your pajamas' - somehow that was not very
exciting to me.
How about 'blaster' - now here is where we are getting into
dangerous territory for sure, and this one can easily translate
to 'spammer'. You can see where I am going with this one, maybe
the sandbox, maybe even jail! Beware of anything with 'blaster'
in the name.
What are the dangers of this harmless flirtation? Aside from the
hundreds of dollars I wasted on memberships in all these
dissociated programs, and tools that I never had time to follow
through on (use), there are the reams of paper I wasted printing
out every screen, every detail about each opportunity; followed
by the eye-strain and a condition well-known as 'information
overload'.
Diagnosis: LOSS OF FOCUS! One must return to a logical state
somehow. I was so overwhelmed after my first 6 months, that I
just had to 'step back'. It took a long time of just going around
thinking, 'what do I do next', 'where do I start'. I am not
exaggerating here.
It took me a couple months of doing almost NOTHING, but I did
know I was committed to this dream of having my own business on
the Internet, and that is the only reason I didn't just throw
everything away and get another dead-end day job!
My return to sanity: I found a program that had everything all
put together for me - a very affordable, free website, including
legitimate, proven affiliate programs, training in marketing
strategy, tools and resources, sales copy, and a support forum.
The latter has especially been a Godsend, in that working at home
alone navigating a brave new world, it sure is good to know I am
not alone. The cost was unbelievably low. No bait and switch,
either, it is still the same after 2 years. This would give me
the cohesive foundation to build on, one brick at a time.
I had to promise myself, if I spent another dime or joined one
more program, I would have to quit a corresponding number of
things in order to generate the money it would cost. So I weeded
out all the expensive things that hadn't worked, that had lousy
instructions, lousy support, or that were too technical, etc.
Recovery: As I became more and more 'recovered', I still held on
to a few pet IM tools that would surely help in my new venture.
Slowly I have let them go too, but it was hard. I had withdrawal
symptoms = 'you have already spent this money over the past
several months, are you just going to chuck it all'?
Then the saying 'throwing good money after bad' came to me, and I
said 'cut your losses already; WHY keep doing something that
hasn't worked'? I feel another saying coming on, 'Definition of a
crazy person: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting
different results'.
Half-Way House: This is not to say that once firmly established I
could not begin to add on more Niches to my portfolio of
websites. (I had secretly hidden 5 more domain names in a
half-way house) and do have plans for my network of companies
that I have begun to build on slowly. However, my MAIN FOCUS is
the one core program which will be the prototype for developing
my other businesses in the future.
About the author:
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Patricia Brucoli is a trusted online residual income authority
and provides valuable online residual income opportunities and
resources through her website at:
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.com You can also read Patricia's online residual income blog at:
http://www.the3rdpartynetx.com/blogx
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