Before getting online, I was also involved in USA mail-order marketing for many years, and the print-ad way of doing things is to test all aspects of your advertising: test headlines, test ad-body, and test ad sources.
Most people online are in too much of a hurry to test ads, or don't know that they should, and don't put in their time and effort long enough to find out which ads & ad sites work and which don't.
Advertising should not be a random situation. I've heard from a lot of members in my online business teams who gave up after just a few days of posting a few ads online, and getting no leads. There are 100,000's of people online posting tons of ads, and if you want to compete, you need to CONSISTENTLY promote in lots of different sites DAILY and be UNIQUE and try different promotional methods, also include social networking and photo/name branding, not just plastering the internet with anonymous ads and expecting leads and income to pour in.
My usual day is promoting to approximately 35 or more ad sites, including safelists, traffic exchanges, networks, and classified ads.
Keep working your business daily and put your enthusiasm and effort and time into it, and also put some of that effort and time into learning how the business works, and using the products/services and marketing advice and tools provided.
==>>The worst thing that can happen is, you allow someone else's opinion to become your own, without doing your own studying, and missing out on your own greatness because you believed an unknowledgeable opinion.
Don't allow anyone who's not in your same career path to tell you not to pursue your career path. Don't allow anyone who's not SERIOUS about your business to tell you not to pursue that business.
You've probably heard that before, now here's a unique way to remember not to let anyone who's not in online marketing, or not in your business, to tell you not to pursue your business:
Imagine if an alien from another planet told you that you CAN'T be successful if you're a human on earth. (Now replace the word "human" with the words "internet marketer"...and replace the word "earth" with the name of your business!) You CAN BE successful as a human on earth, and you KNOW that...so don't let ANYONE who's an ALIEN to internet marketing or an alien to your particular business tell you that you can't be successful in what you choose to do, because lots of other people ARE successful in online marketing AND in the business you're in. Remember that!
Don't let anyone who's alien to you, or alien to internet marketing, or alien to your business tell you what to do, don't let anyone tell you that you can't be successful when you know other people who ARE successful in the same career path and business. If YOU want to be a successful human on earth, then make your own decisions and stick with them, do your own studying and form your own opinions, because all the other humans on earth are just humans...just like you, and if you don't know their motivation or knowledge, then don't let them make your decisions for you or form your opinions for you, and most of them are not into online marketing and have not studied marketing for decades, and of those who are, only a small percentage are successful. If you want to be successful at something, listen to the people who ARE successful at it. If you want to fail or give up, listen to those who've never tried or gave up.
Here's a longterm businesses created by someone with decades of marketing experience, Ron Walsh. I've been with EZWS for over 2 years and it has a very detailed backoffice with lots of advice and promotional tools for online AND offline marketing, and has lots of members who've earned $1,000's per month:
EZ Wealth Solution has a PATENTED pay-plan: Nearly 5 years in business! I've been a member for over 2 years, not just a member, one of the top earners, because I've studied the business daily, promoted the business daily for approximately 790 days, and I don't let anyone tell me I CAN'T be a successful "human" on "earth, I don't let anyone tell me I CAN'T be a successful "internet marketer" on "EZ Wealth Solution"!
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