Diorex

After my last post about the abundance of Google Cash and Obama Money schemes showing on Facebook, I had a really strange conversation with the girl who cuts my hair yesterday.

We were talking about what I do and then we drifted to Facebook and she asked the question - Can a normal person really make money on the internet like those ads say? My immediate response was “no, not really”.

I spent the next few hours thinking about this and came to the conclusion that a normal person is destined to fail.

My thoughts in no particular order:

• The average person does not have a few thousand dollars of risk capital to test with that if lost does not affect their standard of living
• The average person making money in the internet business might be a dumbass, but they are typically highly intelligent dumbasses.
• The average person has almost no technical acumen of how anything internet related works
• The average success on the internet failed many times before succeeding - I am one of the rare guys I know of who made the first website and domain I ever started work - most people give up too quickly to succeed.
• The average person is unwilling to learn the math behind testing as it is “too hard”
• The average person is probably unwilling to break out of their shell and push hard for a payout, white label, and other requirements to succeed
• The average person is not creative enough to find a new way to succeed - not saying you need the baility to draw, but rather the ability to think outside the box.
• The average person wants to be shown how to do something rather than figure it out - almost no one who buys ebooks makes any money - sellers maybe?

I am sure I had lots more thoughts/opinions about this, but as I write this I solidly believe that most of the people succeeding in the internet have traits that make them not the average person - not even the average person trying to succeed on the internet (put internet marketer in place of average person above) - intelligence, analytical ability, perseverence, critical thinking, and lots more.

To be honest, by definition a successful person is not average and thus someone who is average has the cards stacked against them from the start. For every 10,000 people who sign up for adwords or wicked fire or the Google cash system or buy a book on internet marketing - the vast majority never even had a prayer of success from day 1. Hundreds who did have a shot will fail out of laziness or stubborness or lack of capital etc. The few who do succeed were probably not lucky.

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