I recently read a story about a man, Henry Gribbohm, a resident of Manchester NH who lost his entire savings. While you’d want to feel sorry for him initially, when you find out that he lost it playing a game at a Carnival trying to win a Xbox Kinect, it’s unlikely you’ll feel any sort of empathy for him.
It gets worse however: he initially lost $300 trying to get the $100 gift by playing a game where you try to put a ball into a tub – but he was persistent and decided to go back home and take out $2300 more and win the game.
He lost everything.
What makes the story even sadder, or sorrier is that after blowing his savings on a stupid carnival game, he decided to contact the local media and police and blame his loses on, of all things, the carnival. According to his brilliant observation, it wasn’t his fault that he did something so absolutely stupid, but it was the carnival’s fault because there is no way he could have lost all that money by himself. They somehow made him be a total screw-up.
Most of us read this story and think to ourselves that this guy is nothing but a complete idiot and shouldn’t be allowed anywhere in public by himself.
There is however many people in the affiliate marketing game who are no different than this guy: they are trying the same thing over and over again, refusing to think for themselves and blaming others for their lack of success.
Here are a few tips for those who are trying to be successful and really become an entrepreneur. Yes, if you are working on the Internet in the affiliate and performance marketing game, you need to think of yourself as an entrepreneur. If you don’t, you’ve failed already.
1) Stop Wasting Time. Most of the forums and Facebook groups are a complete waste of your time when it comes to growing as an entrepreneur. You are not going to learn all that much them, and you are going to spend a great deal of your energy arguing with trolls who are in a worse position than you. It’s not that there is no value in learning from others, but don’t depend on them for your success. Take what you can and build on it.
2) Stop Following Others. I get tons of emails from people who want to learn about affiliate marketing, and want to find someone to teach them. It’s a simple game: you make more money than you spend. If you are looking to duplicate what others are doing, you may as well work at McDonalds. Those who really make money, not just a “living” are thinking outside the box, developing new traffic sources and growing their business.
3) Stop Blaming Others. Simply, when you fail its no ones fault but your own. Yes, there are frauds and scams, but if you did a little due diligence you probably would have not trusted that the 16-year-old virgin would have paid you. Learn from your mistakes and focus on succeeding in the future, not on past failures.
It sounds simple, right?
You’d think so, but so many people just copy what others do, do not try to innovate and see that if they don’t succeed the first time, it must the fault of others. Here’s something you probably don’t want to hear: maybe if you are one of those people you need to accept the honest truth: you aren’t really made to be an entrepreneur, and you are better off taking a job working at McDonalds.
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