Things I Hate…

…about making monies online.

This post will be divided in two posts, starting with things that I hate about Internet Marketing and then I’ll post the things I love about Internet Marketing!

Things I Hate: Now.

I decided to begin with things I hate so at the end of the post I’ll talk about things I love about it and I won’t get upset with the things I hate. Smart right? Not really.

1. Being my own boss: That’s both a thing that I love and that I hate about Internet Entrepreneurship, the reason why I hate being my own boss is because I have really strong work ethics and I can’t stop working on something until I find a way to make that profitable, and that my friends, is not a virtue when becomes a disease, there were days I went to bed at 4am just because I couldn’t get to sleep until I “fix” or come up with a better way to convert the offers.
2. Too Much Testing: When you are working for someone, you’re given a task, so you shall focus on doing that thing and you’ll succeed, and if you don’t succeed is not entirely your fault since the task given to you was that one, if you followed it blow-by-blow and things didn’t work out, you look at your superior and ask a “what’s next” question. Not on this market, first, because you have to work under the radar and just can’t tell everybody what you are working on, because that will bring more competitors than you naturally already have (if it is profitable you’ll have competitors, period.), and there is ALWAYS room for tweaking, is amazing, when you think you’re done with optimizing a campaign or whatever, the very next day or a week from now the conversion rate will decrease and there you are mixing things up again, or a new law kick in and you have to change to not get your ass sued.
3. SEO: That is indeed the most annoying thing about making money on the internet, but is paramount to do if you don’t have money to invest yet on Pay-Per-Click or whatever, the results can take months to come into effect if you’re working on a competitive niche, so if by chance you search optimize one website, and that keyword doesn’t convert, you may have thrown a few months down the toilet, at least you learn something, to make Keyword and Competition analysis more critically.
4. It’s an always changing market: It’s amazing how things change really fast, if you don’t think creatively you’ll be left behind, it’s crazy, that’s why is so important to mind your own business instead of going with the crowd and doing what the “Gurus” asked you to do, they make money telling n00bs how to make money, that’s the easiest most convenient kind of “online job” possible, all they have to do is get trust from people, then the mass effect kick in and they are “Gurus” and everything they say is good, people buy.
5. It’s boring: I don’t know about other marketers, a lot of them must find IM exciting, mostly because they are playing with high numbers and taking a lot of risks, but for a wannabe marketer like me, it’s boring, you do the same kind of thing to make money and be paid, money was never a motivator to me, I think that’s why I don’t make as much as I should be making, I’m not money driven, I’m care-free driven, if I want to make money? Of course I do, but there have to be other things that money can give to me than just having money in my bank account, I’m not Scrooge McDuck.
6. No value: When people ask me what I do for living, I don’t know what to say, so I just say that I make websites, what upsets me the most is the fact that I’m not really contributing to anything, I may donate to charity, but that’s not really having a high-value job like Doctor or Therapist, Life Coach or Motivational Speaker.
7. It’s uncertain: That’s the most frustrating kind of work I’ve seen, you can be making hundreds of thousands per month this year and not do that great next year, or even have made $xxx,xxx last month and make $xx,xxx this month, so you never know how much you will really make, you can have an idea, but what if the offer is cut down from the network? Or other things happen? So the uncertainty is high, you must be really courageous to follow this path and drop your secure job that your degree bought you.

Maybe I’m taking the wrong road here, there are a lot of internet marketers out there that are really happy with what they do, they make tons of money, work little hours to none, go to seminars, surf, curse at forums, etcetera… But these are the main factors that makes me wonder if it is really the path that I want to follow. But meh, I just have to find a way to turn those points that I hate into good things, to inspire not to push me away or drag me down. As they say, success is a state of mind.